[joanie-f]

I didn't believe the earlier reports of remains being found .... but I'm glad there are remains for their relatives to bury. Maybe we can build a memorial and a common grave area for them if the families want that. I hope we find some remains from all of them. But the details of that don't have be publicized.

I, too, find it difficult to believe that any body parts at all survived burning up in the apparent explosion, or in the re-entry through the atmosphere. The metal parts that have been recovered are so charred and disfigured that the odds of what is being reported about recovery of human body parts is inconceivable to me.

I of course didn’t know any of the astronauts personally, and forgive me if you think this insensitive, but, as President Bush voiced today, I would like to think that they are all now safely home. And, were I a mother, or a sister, or a wife, of one of them, whether or not I had a recovered a body part to bury would be of no significance. My loved one died in the tragic explosion. He will continue to live on in the memories of those who knew and loved him. No physical remains are of any significance.

[George W. Bush]

No physical remains are of any significance.

I think you're wrong. Even after all these years, you read about people wanting the remains of their dead from Vietnam, Korea, WW II.

It gives them a closure. And it doesn't have to make sense to you. It might give the rest of us a closure too, to have a funeral for our astronauts and to have something of them to bury.

Hopefully, people will offer some prayers that the searchers locate the remains for the sakes of the families.