[Sergeant Tim]

What was callously and deliberately left as Ground Zero is far from "unretrievable." Please read this to verify that statement.

[F.J. Mitchell]

More and more Americans are opting for cremation for their loved ones, often because the deceased requests it be that way. I am too old fashioned to even think of this for a deceased loved one, but it seems to be the way of the future.

With this in mind, just how much time and expense should be devoted to recovering every smidgen of DNA from sights of such tragic and mammoth proportion?

Not intending to sound cold, just hopefully reasonable. I search my heart as best I can, and honestly feel that if small portions of a loved one remained at point zero and was covered for ever beneath the new structure, I would have no problem with it.

[Textphile]

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.

[FreeReign]

What was callously and deliberately left as Ground Zero is far from "unretrievable." Please read this to verify that statement.

Your link doesn't support your claim that the remains found were "callously and deliberately left...".

[FreedomCalls]

There are still sailor's bodies trapped in the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. Should we salvage it so that we can retrieve the bodies or is it best left there as a monument to those who gave their lives so that we can be free?