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While the goverment tries to dole out punishment to someone who may or may not have had anything to do with the September 11 attacks in Virginia, it turns out at that demolitions workers found bone fragments on the roof of 130 Liberty Street - aka the Deutsche Bank building. According to the medical examiner's office, there were 74 human remains samples, and the ME's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove told the NY Times, "This is the largest find from the Deutsche Bank, and I would not be surprised if additional quantities of remains are found there. They are still doing the cleanup." Which concerns some victims' families, who are worried that some workers won't know what to preserve while doing clean-up. The Deutsche Bank is in the middle of being carefully deconstructed, with the LMDC hoping all the work will be done by next spring.
And last night, Governor Pataki, NJ Governor Corzine and Mayor Bloomberg "secretly" (so secret that the Post found out) to work on a deal to offer Larry Silverstein over Ground Zero development. We'll see if three cooks in the kitchen is too many in the next few days.
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This could go on Gawker Stalker, but, yesterday (Wednesday) morning around 8:30 I saw Governor Jon Corzine grabbing some breakfast on the corner of Rector and Church - only a few blocks from the WTC.
It would be really nice if they revisited the Freedom Tower design. I think since Sept 11 the world has proven itself unafraid of skyscrapers again. Look at Shanghai's skyline. They are putting up record breaking skyscrapers faster than you can sneeze. Even Chicago is getting a gorgeous Calatrava designed super skyscraper. Let's recapture that world record. Putting up that atrocity as it is currently designed with make the mistakes of the original towers pale in comparison.
this is so absurd. it makes me imagine a grieving widow rubbing her dearly departed's pulverized bone fragment remains on her body, weeping hysterically. we shouldn't force construction workers to enable this kind of nonsense.
Build the Freedom Tower already! (rename it 1WTC later).
realist, you dunce. You obviously have never experienced loss.
Here's a clue. When people grieve one of the most important things that can happen is simply knowing that their loved one is definitely gone/dead. It's quite primal and there's really no way to logically get past that point if you're truly traumatized.
A bone fragment--no matter how small--is enough to basically show to the family and go, "We're sorry, but this is all we found..."
And once that's done, the person can move on.
I think all the hemming/hawing by the 9-11 families over the memorials is assinine. But finding remains and giving it back to the family is a good thing.
Too bad the absolute idiots at Deutsche Bank are so callous/cold that they stood in the way of more immediate searches of their property for remains. They were quite selfish to say the least durring the whole 9-11 process.