Posted on 12/29/2008 8:44:28 AM PST by BGHater
It has been more than seven years since 20-year-old Deora Bodley and 39 other passengers and crew died in the fiery crash of United Airlines Flight 93, their hijacked plane disintegrating in a grove of hemlock trees outside Shanksville, Pa.
Most of the remains from the tragedy on Sept. 11, 2001, were never recovered, making the bowl-shaped crash site in the western Pennsylvania countryside an unofficial cemetery and, for surviving relatives, sacred ground.
But efforts to buy property for a national Flight 93 memorial have bogged down in federal red tape and a protracted land dispute, angering family members and risking plans to hold a dedication ceremony on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The delays have prompted an advocacy group, Families of Flight 93, to ask President Bush to personally intervene during his final weeks in office to allow the federal government to seize the land needed for the memorial and to allocate part of the money for the project.
"He signed the memorial act. He wanted something to be there and to be in place for years and years to come," said Bodley's mother, Deborah Borza, of San Diego. "We have waited so long already. I hold on to being hopeful that between now and January 20, something will happen, something will break free."
Landowner Mike Svonavec of Svonavec Inc. of Somerset, Pa., said the National Park Service and Flight 93 groups are "trying to make my company and myself look like the bad guy in this."
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And you're gonna tell me you have no problem with that statement?
Why are you so adamant about defending Bush on this? No one is blaming him. The spoiled brats are asking him to take the land.
(Some people see BDS even when it's not there)
For the luvofPete, stay on-point. Because the headline implicates him by association. I pointed this out from the beginning, and people kept needling me about "well what DO you call it?" -- and I kept responding, "no, you're missing the point. can't you see what the media's doing with this?"...and I guess you don't...
It's a non-freaking issue, is the point, that the media is using as another excuse to cast aspersions upon every last vestige of the Bush presidency.
Huh? I didn't see it that way. I saw the BRATS asking Bush to do something. After reading the story I don't see where Bush is implicated at all.
If the headline had read "Bush to seize land..." then you would've had a point. Or, even "Bush may seize land...". But, not the way it's written.
Like I said, some people see BDS even when it's not there.
Probably for parking.
No, unfortunately, trying to have a conversation with someone like you devolves one into a tool.
Thanks for taking FR to new lows.
For unsold GM vehicles, maybe???
At an average parking space size of 325 square feet (which includes the driving part of the lot, not just where the car sits) and 2,200 acres (about 96,000,000 ft2, that means the site could hold about 295,000 cars.
Disneyland closes its doors at 60,000, so they aren't going to need that much parking.
This area is HUGE. It is becuase they want to grab the whole debris field.
What kind of people are these? Something does stink here.
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