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Posted by: jeremytoday 1 year, 11 months agoMayor Michael Bloomberg's explanation that the city's cleanup of the World Trade Center site was done quickly out of respect for victims' families did little to quell the anger of some who fear the remains of their loved ones were overlooked.
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heyyy-now
Oct. 25, 2006, 10:07 a.m.I can understand families wanting the remains of their loved ones. However, if all that is left of someone is a bone here and there, then what is the point. You couldn't of had an open casket service for them. I wouldn't want to see my loved ones mangled remains. I'm sure the bodies that were not burnt beyond recognition were recovered and identified right away. But, with the heat that the fires gave off and the falling of the buildings, that had to of destroyed a lot of the victims remains beyond all recognition. In that case you have to try to except that they are gone and hold memorials for the person. And then try to get on with life the best that you can.
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brad1231
Oct. 25, 2006, 10:06 a.m.When do you stop looking for body parts and bones? 2 years later... 3 years........they would be there for years if they had to find everything that people want. It's a hard thing to say... ok.. enough!!!! but someone had to make the call.... to soon? maybe others thought it was to late.... but regardless.... ya can't please everyone all the time as everyone knows... but just can't admit.
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contrast
Oct. 25, 2006, 10:21 a.m.I dunno I mean when something like this happens clear it out as soon as possible....do you REALLY want dead bodies and dismembered parts being pulled out of the rubble everyday for six years? What about the health effects? lingering decomposing human remains, thats how things like the Plague start. What's wrong with looking there and saying that is my loved one's resting place? The clean up was meant for a lot of reasons. Get the city functioning, get this horrid murder scene wrapped up before lookie Lous and morbid souvenier hunters show up, get the remains out of here and ID'ed before they start decomposing. Besides do I really want my brother's disembodied leg or something to hug before I bury it? that wouldnt comfort me in the least bit let me just think he was vaporized...it's less traumatic.
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PopEye52
Oct. 25, 2006, 10:34 a.m.WAKE UP PEOPLE! IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY. IF ANYONE CARED ABOUT YOUR LOVE ONES. THEN WHY THE GOVERMENT LET 911 HAPPEN. $$$$$$AND MORE $$$$$$. EVER SINCE 911 THE PUBLIC IS BEING RAPED.
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contrast
Oct. 25, 2006, 10:49 a.m.damn popeye I dont even know how to answer that since you totally missed the point of the article. You conspiracy people often do though. The article could be about curing cancer and you would post exactly what you did. You people are a waste of time.
BTW the public has always been raped by the upper 1% work hard and maybe you'll get to do the raping someday
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web_1
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:04 a.m.tHEY ARE TRYING TO GET A NEW BUILDING UP SO "B.S BUSH" CAN SAY LOOK AT THIS WONDERFULL MEMORIAL!!!! BUT I DO REGRET WE LEFT YOUR LOVED ONES BURIED IN MILLIONS OF TONS OF CONCRETE, GLASS & STEEL. OOPS, ISN'T THAT WHAT Mayor Michael Bloomberg's explanation Would be?? Yea, more political Bullsh*t for the sake of politics
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zippercat1
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:07 a.m.No theories here. Bush said it was the bad guys. so it is. What the administration says is correct. If they did plan 911, it's ok. W is never wrong. They were just upper middle class people in the towers anyways. They don't make as much as us! HAHA we are really great. I mean, we upset the terrorist, (we can't call them muslims, they were born terrorist)(evil, not god followers like us republicans. No doubt about it, we are the best.
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zippercat1
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:07 a.m.Anyone that doesn't think like us should have been in those towers. That way us upper 1% can remain in power. It would sicken me to see hard working americans succeed "gulp" and take our jobs. Lets keep killing our own people and blaming it on everyone else. It's easier that way. Conservative rule! You soldiers quit crying too. If you don't die over there, you'll come back and make more job competition. Keep dying guys "maintain the course" I catch you getting common sense, I'll say you want to cut and run. Republicans rule!
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zippercat1
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:10 a.m.I hope all victims rest in peace. May god bless the families and friends through their tough times. It's been 5 years, but can feel like yesterday to them. Troops, we support you. Your commander in cheif is a b*tch, but thats not your fault.
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AntwonF1
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:21 a.m.A sorry state of affairs...
When will this ENTIRE administration be impeached?
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geographer47
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:22 a.m.No wonder there are mixed reactions. An apology is commendable unless it's a pass-the-buck, blame-the-victim statement like this.
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MarsDlugosz
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:29 a.m.I see. It is now okay for Mayors to remove crime scene evidence. Is there no end to it. Remember the Warren Commision? Where is the evidence? Bloomy owes a better explanation than that. How about the TRUTH. Call me what you will, I ignore you.
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IanFraigun
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:38 a.m.OK FOLKS lets stop the political BS here.
Lets express our sympathy to those left behind and comiserate with their loss and how this news has brought it all back again to those who never had identified remains.
Lets comfort those who again are in emotional pain and then move on WITHOUT the political bickering.
Some things are beyond the politics of the day and should remain that way. This is one of those things. You want to discuss the politics open another op-ed article to do that, but leave these familys alone in peace please.
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mamasan
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:46 a.m.Sorry Ian the non clean up is important to the families.
PS on NUTscape we are free to bloviate how we see fit!
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rlgnmksustpd
Oct. 25, 2006, 11:55 a.m.I cnn understand how parts ended up on top a building, and fragments were so small that they weren't immediately noticed. but how do pieces of bones, some a foot long, end up in an unused manhole?
Regardless of who you believe was responsible for 9/11, it was still a crime scene and should have been treated as such.
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FrankieT
Oct. 25, 2006, noonSorrow and respect for the families.
Respect always for any crime scene.
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looter
Oct. 25, 2006, 12:41 p.m.So the much hailed, Jigloani sorry Juliani was nothing but a fake. He screwed up the whole thing. Admit it and take action against those officials. I saw those buildings one year before the attacks and never visited the site after the attack because I loved those buildings so much I just can't imagine them not there. Another reason was my respect to the dead. I know there will be fragments of those missing people all over that place. I just don't want to walk over it. Now we know the responsible person the mayor Mr. Juliani only messed up by hurrying the clean up operations.
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bdmcrts
Oct. 25, 2006, 9:31 p.m.I went to Ground Zero a year after the tragedy and you're right, it IS a hard thing to see -- and painful. It's even painful today. If it's painful for us, imagine how painful it is for the families who have lost their loved ones.
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joeblowe
Oct. 25, 2006, 1:04 p.m.Well, this is truely a ducking fizzaster. Surely, if they had found enough of those tiny pieces SOONER and put them back together QUICKER they could have reassembled those poor people and brought them back to life. Right? Isn't that what all the BFD is about? Bah, last I heard dead was DEAD. Anyone who hasn't mourned their lose by now, and accepted that lose, probably never will and finding a few miscellaneous bone fragments is not likely to make any difference to them. In fact, bringing this up again is probably very hurtful to those families. A senseless mass murder like this is hard to get over. But it's been 5 years. Time to move on, if they will just STOP holding little bone fragments in front of the press. Once again, my condolences to anyone who suffered a loss in that attack.
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joeblowe
Oct. 25, 2006, 1:07 p.m.Hey, wait a minute. You think MAYBE this whole story has been more or less concocted right before the elections to get everyone mad at the terrorists all over again? So they'll vote to keep the people in office who have consistantly been killing the people who have been blamed? Hmmmm.
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MarsDlugosz
Oct. 25, 2006, 1:11 p.m.johnyu: and your point? who cares about ashes? when you are dead you are dead. what matters is who dunit!
Cheers,
Mars
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MarsDlugosz
Oct. 25, 2006, 1:17 p.m.nemoshyz: i am what i am. im saying you are closed minded so there. i'm not ignoring anything, just boobs like you.
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