Workers uncover more remains at WTC site
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Updated: 8:54 p.m. ET Oct 22, 2006
NEW YORK - Searchers found more bones believed to belong to Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack victims Sunday in manholes and utility areas, areas that were apparently overlooked years ago.
Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, who is overseeing the recovery effort, also said that search officials had identified 12 additional underground areas that will be examined in coming days.
Utility and city officials have excavated about five underground areas, yielding more than 100 pieces of human remains, since construction workers discovered bones earlier in the week in a manhole excavated as part of work on a transit hub.
The medical examiner’s office said 18 pieces of remains were found Sunday. The bones found thus far range from tiny fragments to recognizable bones from skulls, torsos, feet and hands. Some are as large as whole arm and leg bones.
“They will go through every grain, every piece of material carefully, and sift through it,” Skyler said.
The underground pockets are located along the western edge of the 16-acre lower Manhattan site, underneath a service road built in March of 2002 to free up traffic on a major thruway that had been closed since the Sept. 11 attack.
However, when it was built, some below-ground cavities that had been used for utility and infrastructure purposes were paved over without being searched for remains.
Skyler said the city will focus on finding remains before it reviews how the initial search was handled. He said construction at ground zero did not need to be halted to accommodate the search, but that officials would address the need if it arises.
Some Sept. 11 families, however, called for the rebuilding to stop until the recovery is finished.
“Their actions say remains are not a priority, they’re secondary to the rebuilding,” said Charles Wolf, who lost his wife and has never received any of her identified remains. “This is bringing up all the gnawing, gut-wrenching stuff inside us again.”
The active search for the dead ended at the site in 2002 after a massive cleanup of 1.5 million tons of debris. About 20,000 pieces of human remains were found, but the DNA in thousands of those pieces was too damaged by heat, humidity and time to yield matches in the many tests forensic scientists have tried over the years.
More than 40 percent of the 2,749 Sept. 11 victims in New York have never been identified.
Updated: 8:54 p.m. ET Oct 22, 2006
NEW YORK - Searchers found more bones believed to belong to Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack victims Sunday in manholes and utility areas, areas that were apparently overlooked years ago.
Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, who is overseeing the recovery effort, also said that search officials had identified 12 additional underground areas that will be examined in coming days.
Utility and city officials have excavated about five underground areas, yielding more than 100 pieces of human remains, since construction workers discovered bones earlier in the week in a manhole excavated as part of work on a transit hub.
The medical examiner’s office said 18 pieces of remains were found Sunday. The bones found thus far range from tiny fragments to recognizable bones from skulls, torsos, feet and hands. Some are as large as whole arm and leg bones.
“They will go through every grain, every piece of material carefully, and sift through it,” Skyler said.
The underground pockets are located along the western edge of the 16-acre lower Manhattan site, underneath a service road built in March of 2002 to free up traffic on a major thruway that had been closed since the Sept. 11 attack.
However, when it was built, some below-ground cavities that had been used for utility and infrastructure purposes were paved over without being searched for remains.
Skyler said the city will focus on finding remains before it reviews how the initial search was handled. He said construction at ground zero did not need to be halted to accommodate the search, but that officials would address the need if it arises.
Some Sept. 11 families, however, called for the rebuilding to stop until the recovery is finished.
“Their actions say remains are not a priority, they’re secondary to the rebuilding,” said Charles Wolf, who lost his wife and has never received any of her identified remains. “This is bringing up all the gnawing, gut-wrenching stuff inside us again.”
The active search for the dead ended at the site in 2002 after a massive cleanup of 1.5 million tons of debris. About 20,000 pieces of human remains were found, but the DNA in thousands of those pieces was too damaged by heat, humidity and time to yield matches in the many tests forensic scientists have tried over the years.
More than 40 percent of the 2,749 Sept. 11 victims in New York have never been identified.
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http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
I totally agree with this post. In fact, I had written something similar earlier, but I didn't put it as eloquently as you and I decided it would just make people mad.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, it's just something that never made much sense to me.
I have to agree with you 100%. I lost a friend on 9/11 and I know her family never received any of her remains. Their opinion is that she is gone and they don't need pieces of her in order to move forward. I think it istime that we as a nation move forward. Rebuild that area of Downtown Manhattan. Have the proper area dedicated to those that lost their lives that day but let's not stay in this limbo just becausesome bone fragments where found. The truth be told there are people whose remains will never be found so are we to keep that area a large gaping hole in the ground untill every single family member is satisfied. I think it would be more of an honor to the dead if we moved on and constructed a proper memorial to them than just a huge crater.
here is my question. should the families have the final call or should nyc continue regardless?
~Ron Burgundy
It is a very touchy subject but I believe that while the construction is in process an effort should be madeto sift through and still search for remains. To completely shut down the construction I think is a bit overboard. Like I previously stated when do you stop the search for remains, 1 month, 1 year, 10 years. I believe it's time to rebuild that area and construct a proper memorial for the dead.
I can't imagine being there searching for bones. I agree with you.
~Ron Burgundy