4 April 2010—New York City will take up its search for the remains of 9/11 victims again Monday by sifting through debris from the World Trade Center site in the hopes of releasing families from the emotional purgatory they have been in for the last nine years.
Photo: Shawn Baldwin, AP—An excavator sifts through 9/11 rubble at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island in 2002.
The material has been collected over the last two years from areas at ground zero that were previously inaccessible after the 2001 attack. But the city has been keeping the debris in a landfill in Staten Island, angering many families of the victims.
“What we're objecting to is they put them on the most recently used garbage dump,” said Diane Horning, whose 26-year-old son, Matthew, was killed in the attacks. “They literally threw them in the dump.”
Horning co-founded WTC Families For A Proper Burial along with her husband, Kurt. In 2005, they and 16 other families sued the city to have one million tons of debris moved off the landfill. Horning has suggested the city bury the material at an empty spot on the landfill, on nearby Governor's Island in the New York Harbor, or at the Flight 93 memorial site in Shanksville, Pa. The families lost their initial case and their appeal, which they argued in December.
At the appellate hearing, James Tyrrell Jr., a lawyer for the city, argued that taxpayer money could not be used to move the pile.
“Digging up the landfill simply because somebody’s loved ones might be there—that’s not a sufficient reason,” Tyrrell said. Continue Reading »
The teeth!!! Get the teeth!!!
ReplyDeleteThats just wrong, isn't somebody's loved ones being trapped under there the only thing that should be the concern? Not the metal debris. Think about the people lost on that tragic day.
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