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.
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.
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.
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
Didn't the holdouts hold out because they really DID want to sue the airlines, though? This is what I recall, what do you remember?
I disagree. Arlington Cemetary BEGAN as Robert E. Lee's family's private home, but was expropriated for use as a cemetery for UNION soldiers. If someone built a commercial building there now, 150 years after the Civil War, that would be a travesty.
The WTC, on the other hand, had been the center of the bustling business core of NYC for over 25 years. NOT building it back, or something that would take its place in the business world would be the travesty. Make the first floor a memorial, but build that complex back and make it even more proftable than before. THAT would be the way to honor the dead and poke a stick in the eye of the terrorists.
I don't want to sound cruel, but dead is dead. You cannot risk the safety and health of the living to give someone some small shred of their beloved ones body.
There are no safety issues involved here.
Law suits against the airline were made illegal by the law that paid the blackmail. Some could be banking on the law being overturned, but I don't know the motives of everyone who showed some backbone and did not take the money in exchange for not bankrupting the airlines, (when the Muslims were responsible for the events of 9/11).
And yes, it was deliberate.
And I am not saying the workers deliberately did that. It was a senior management decision.
What?
I doubt it.
Your link doesn't support your claim that the remains found were "callously and deliberately left...".
It's hardly a National cemetary- And I personally knew one of the deceased. Building the towers as Trump suggested would be the greatest memorial to those people.
http://www.triroc.com/wtc/pix/posterfootprints.htm
Best memorial period.
http://www.triroc.com/wtc/pix/posterfootprints.htm
Compare Trump's design. Hand's down winner.
Thanks for the ping!!!!!!! It's a tragic shame indeed.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!!!
Very nice, very appropriate, very dignified.
There is a great moment in Julius Caesar when the character come upon a dead body and one says "Is that not he?" and the response is "No, this was he.." The people who loved and were loved are gone.
That sounds amorphous. Name some names.
The airlines WERE responsible for the safety of passengers who paid to travel on that mode of transportation. If the airplane dropped an engine or a wing fell off, the airlines would be responsible. The airlines were negligent in providing a reasonable level of protection. This wasn't the first time an airline had been hijacked, the risk existed. The airlines couldn't find room in the budget for air marshalls. Now the American taxpayer is paying for that. Why should I subsidize safety for something I don't use?
You corporatists are worse then communists.
Agreed!
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