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They paved over the dead at Ground Zero...
Take Back the Memorial.org ^ | October 28, 2006 | Tim Sumner

Posted on 10/29/2006 4:35:46 AM PST by Sergeant Tim

...and a few decided to just leave them there.

No matter what you have heard to the contrary, more than five years after 9/11, the Deutsche Bank building has not been fully searched. New York City's official spokespeople are playing word games and many in the media are their echo chambers. When the South Tower fell, massive amounts of debris fell on and into that building, leaving huge beams precariously hanging out over Cedar Street and a twenty floor gouge in the building's north face. When the first big crane approached nearby West and Liberty, the ground shook beneath it. They smartly backed off and engineers soon determined that the bathtub's walls adjacent West and Liberty Streets were unstable. If they had collapsed, the Hudson River might have flooded the Pit and much of Manhattan's rail lines, power grid, and water and sewer systems.

Ground Zero viewed 9 12 2001 from West and Liberty Streets

That did not stop the FDNY. They climbed inside the Deutsche Bank, crawled where they could, and conducted what all that I have spoken with described as a hands-on, visual inspection. While they were accustomed to moving within dangerous places, environmental tests showed extreme levels of toxins. On September 17, 2001, one day after the photo below was taken, they were ordered out. They cursed aloud, swore oaths to return, and repositioned.

the north facade of the Deutsche Bank building September 16 2001

When it was safer, heavy cranes pulled the steel from the building's facade and removed what they could reach from the outside. The building was draped with a heavy, transparent shroud to contain the materials inside and someone hung the sign in the photograph below. It was still there one year after 9/11.

We will never forget them. We will never forget you

The sign is gone now but not the sentiment. We will never forget the grunts of Ground Zero, those magnificent men and women who endured so much, knocked down that Pile, left no stone in the Pit unturned, and brought so many out to us. Their loyalty and love cost many of them their physical health; it cost none of them their honor.

Mayor Bloomberg has been conned. He has been persuaded to place in charge of the renewed search the same agencies that paved over the dead and callously left them there for five years.

Yet the grunts of Ground Zero have not forgotten the fallen or what they saw down there. If you were there and, like a growing list of witnesses, can provide information that will help bring the fallen from that place, please email me, Tim Sumner, at admin@911familiesforamerica.org

I also know the meaning of the word 'honor' and whether we talk on or off the record will be entirely up to you.

Author's note: Please pass the word about this article, bookmark Take Back the Memorial.org and check in there often yourself for updates. -- Tim Sumner, a.k.a. Sergeant Tim


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; bloomberg; groundzero; humanremains; victimculture
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To: Sergeant Tim

Sounds like you don't have a good argument or any new information that might change my mind about this. I have nothing against your point of view but I think you lack perspective.

Very well then, I will take that lack of any reasonable ability to add new information as confirmation of what I said and I will continue thinking it.


41 posted on 10/29/2006 6:38:29 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Mark was here
Apparently, you also (as my family did) lose someone on 9/11?

So, when you signed those papers, you took a bribe. Correct?

You lumped in every 9/11 family member with your statement. That is what I object to. My sister-in-law did not want to spend the next 10 or 20 years in litigation. She had kids to raise and hearts, including hers, to heal.

42 posted on 10/29/2006 6:41:47 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Sofa King

Yes, I have an agenda. Take (here) a guess what it is.


43 posted on 10/29/2006 6:44:15 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

WE should have started REBUILDING the towers, only even taller, the same day they fell.


44 posted on 10/29/2006 6:45:14 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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To: Sofa King

Go to his website. Anti-left, anti-Murtha, pro troops.


45 posted on 10/29/2006 6:45:41 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: Sofa King
Read his profile. Methinks somebody has an agenda here...

Oh my, someone who chose not to sue the airlines perhaps?

If one knows the events of 9/11 were the cause of the terrorist, there would be no need to agree to not sign a form not to sue the airlines, because you would not of sued them any way. Now if there was a chance you were to sue them, it would mean you did not hold the Muslims completely responsible, and then you would not be running a web site blaming the terrorists... OH my!

46 posted on 10/29/2006 6:52:23 AM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Mark was here

We blame terrorists for 9/11. What I want from them has nothing to do with money.


47 posted on 10/29/2006 6:54:39 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Sergeant Tim
Apparently, you also (as my family did) lose someone on 9/11? So, when you signed those papers, you took a bribe. Correct? You lumped in every 9/11 family member with your statement. That is what I object to. My sister-in-law did not want to spend the next 10 or 20 years in litigation. She had kids to raise and hearts, including hers, to heal.

Litigation suing who? Were you hoping to sue Bin Laden, or are you talking about suing the Airlines?

I did not have any relatives die in the attacks.

Did you Sister in Law sign the forms?

The way I see it your sister in law did not have to spend 5 seconds in litigation if she would of chosen not to sue anyone.

48 posted on 10/29/2006 7:00:30 AM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Sergeant Tim

What the terrorists wanted had nothing to do with money either. They had a thing against skyscrapers and all they represented and wanted to turn New York into a meadow, same as their stinking caves over in the statue-desecrated Afghani badlands. They wanted that.


49 posted on 10/29/2006 7:01:00 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Sergeant Tim

I really didn't realize that there were areas that were not searched. JPAC should be able to help put a proper light on the whole thing. Without research my cousin would have never returned home from WWII thirty years later.


50 posted on 10/29/2006 7:03:03 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Sofa King; RGSpincich; Mark was here; All
Yes, www.911familiesforamerica.org is my seb site, is pro-troop, anti-left, and anti-Murtha. We supported the invasion or Iraq (and still do) and George W. Bush's reelection in 2004 by gathering the names of 262 9/11 family members on an open letter to America. We did not ask any of them if they were or were not suing the government for 9/11 yet I sort of doubt it. The mother of PAPD George Howard, whose badge President Bush carries with him, was one of the co-signers, as is family of Barbara Olsen, and Debra Burlingame as well.

We have agendas that have to do with defending America. Perhaps others have different ones. I do not speak for them

51 posted on 10/29/2006 7:06:09 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: ReignOfError

Antarctica has the remains of pre-byrd expeditions too. it must remain a antarctic memorial garden /s


52 posted on 10/29/2006 7:06:56 AM PST by omega4179 (Cheese eating surrender monkeys)
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To: Mark was here

That has to be a hard thing not to do, though. Among the 3000 dead, all it takes is one leftwinger to threaten to sue and win, and if he does, the others feel like chumps. They have to sign on, too. I don't blame them, I don't know what else their alternatives were, other than to watch leftwingers benefit while they didn't. They had to get on the bandwagon if one leftist was initiating a lawsuit. Otherwise the leftist would get money and they wouldn't. I can't heap too much judgment on them for that just because of the group dynamic.

That said, I think the dead should be recovered to the extent possible, no one should be endangered recovering the dead, the economic life of the city should not shut down, the bathtub should not be broken and the city flooded just to recover the remains and the skyscrapers should be built. The one thing that should not happen is that dynamic, unique lower Manhattan be turned into a disgusting tourist meadow with no economic activity just as the terrorists wanted, turning Manhattan into a New York version of a taliban cave.


53 posted on 10/29/2006 7:07:50 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Mark was here

In answer to your last question, she did not sue the government and never would. Beyond that, I will not discuss her personal business.


54 posted on 10/29/2006 7:08:09 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: armymarinemom; All
Here is Why we are calling for JPAC to be brought in.
55 posted on 10/29/2006 7:15:27 AM PST by Sergeant Tim (In the War on Terror, there is no place to run from here.)
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To: Sergeant Tim
You sound like same kind of senior folks at Ground Zero who paved over the dead and left them

No, I was 2 blocks away when the planes hit. I watched dozens of people jump to their deaths, and breathed the smell of the dead for days. I had many friends and associates die that day. I know damn well what the fight is about. Clearly you didn't read my post. I said enough is enough, that we shouldn't shut down the building everytime they find a 1mm shard of bone. Because that's what's it down to at this point. I have a friend who rented an apartment 6 blocks from the WTC and 3 years after 9/11 they found tiny bone fragments on their roof. There is no end to it. It is horrible and unprecedented. But we have to go on, respect the dead, and honor them by building a new site worthy of their memory and the cause for which we fight.

56 posted on 10/29/2006 7:19:11 AM PST by montag813
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To: Sergeant Tim
In answer to your last question, she did not sue the government and never would. Beyond that, I will not discuss her personal business.

I am talking about signing a form in agreement not to sue the airlines, in exchange for a taxpayer funded pile of cash. Not about suing the government. It should be a simple mater to tell the truth. You said "My sister-in-law did not want to spend the next 10 or 20 years in litigation. She had kids to raise and hearts, including hers, to heal.", this would imply that she took the cash, otherwise litigation would of never entered the picture. Taking of public funds, should be a public mater. If she did not take any whats the big deal in saying she did not? Odds are however that she did because most people jumped for a chance at the cash, I know, kids to raise and hearts to heal.

57 posted on 10/29/2006 7:24:54 AM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Kitten Festival

One other thing - due to the nature of New York, where people come from other countries and live their dreams - there wouldn't be no economic activity except by decree. The chiclet sellers and tourist trinket makers would be fully in business, doing a brisk business at that, making THAT the economic activity of lower Manhattan instead of the great activity that was happening. Afghanistan is loaded with chiclet sellers and trinker hawkers, that's the level of economic activity that goes on over there. To turn the capital of capitalism into a trinket-selling mecca, despite the idea that it would be a meadow, is to misunderstand the nature of New York and what it is and always will be.

In short, either you can have Goldman Sachses and Deutsche banks, moving the great capital financing around the world and launching new businesses and powering the efficient use of money so that everyone can have a retirement account, or you can have chiclet sellers selling tourist trinkets.

The idealists might THINK they can ensure no chiclet sellers as they envision their talibanic meadows but that is unrealistic, given the nature of New York, the INHERENT nature of New York with all its huckster and immigrants and people on the move. They will find a way to make money off it. They can have goldman saches or they can have trinket hawkers because no matter what is decided, economic activity will continue to buzz. It is human nature.


58 posted on 10/29/2006 7:29:17 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival
They have to sign on, too. I don't blame them, I don't know what else their alternatives were, other than to watch leftwingers benefit while they didn't. They had to get on the bandwagon if one leftist was initiating a lawsuit. Otherwise the leftist would get money and they wouldn't. I can't heap too much judgment on them for that just because of the group dynamic.

Do you hear what you are saying? As long as someone else writes the ransom note it's ok to share in the booty? Sorry I don't buy it. Not everyone signed on.

59 posted on 10/29/2006 7:33:00 AM PST by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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To: Sergeant Tim

What was callously and deliberately left as Ground Zero is far from "unretrievable."

The remains found at the WTC site are most likely only a small percentage of those that were left at Fresh Kills.

Despite the relatively fine sifting that was performed there, remains had to survive being run over by bulldozers and compacted into the landfill in order to reach the sifting.

Fields of debris were dumped and spread, workers would then walk through the fields, with time to make only one pass before the debris was pushed into a pile and a new load dumped. Unfortunately, the ground was very wet and muddy from continual watering to keep the dust down.

When the next load was spread out, any remains left over from the previous load were compacted into the mud. It was frustrating to have seen remains but were unable to pick them up because your hands were full, and the debris was scooped up before you could return from the temporary morgue.

I can't speak for those who managed the project, and don't know if they were aware that the pace of deliveries resulted in remains being left behind, but nobody with whom I worked in those debris fields ever callously, or deliberately left anything behind.


60 posted on 10/29/2006 7:34:12 AM PST by Textphile (life member, Disabled American Veterans - American Legion)
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