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Family members protested at Ground Zero, asking that Mayor Bloomberg involve the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in the renewed search for remains from September 11, 2001. Local politicians like Representative Carolyn Maloney and City Councilman Alan Gerson support the families, but Mayor Bloomberg feels it's the "city's responsibility. We're not going to walk away from our responsibility and let somebody else bear the pressure of the work." The families argue that in spite of the new search plans, the search needs more supervision and oversight.
And three people have been identified from previously found remains (not from this search) at the World Trade Center site. The NY Times reports that the city's ME's office matched American Airlines Flight 11 flight attendant Karen Martin and passenger Douglas Stone, as well as an unnamed person, were matched to DNA samples from the victims' families.
The NY Times has an editorial about the search for remains today: "There must be an accurate, detailed and comprehensive search. But there is no reason that construction and a renewed search cannot proceed together."
Photograph of Beverly Eckert, Valerie Barbella and James Barbella, protesting that the military be brought in for the WTC remains searches, by Frank Franklin II/AP
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Can anyone say 'enough already?' While I sympathize with the families, they are asking an impossible task. What? Are they going to be asking for the search fro microscopic particles next? How far will this go? It's time to start building something there already. Bloomberg needs to put his foot down on these people. The time for political correctness and sensitivity is long since over.
A close friend of mine is a relative of one of the people whose names were just released after DNA testing.
Still, I don't think that this discovery is helping her to cope better, just as not having those remains didn't prevent her from mourning properly years ago.
Get this done right NOW.
How would you feel if every few years they find a piece of your relative? What does "PC" have to do with body parts?
What does the Mayor have to hide? oh, I know his nuts, he has none.
MT -
The recent search for Trade Center victims has un-earthed legs, arms, torsos and heads. So your description of the search for "microscopic particles" is stupid. Some of the body parts have not fully decomposed because they have been insulated in manholes. So again, these are not "particles"
Also, I don't know if this qualifies as the "political correctness" you were talking about, but you are an asshole.
Seems to me their just exercising their 1st amendment rights...
IMO, a more thorough search should be done as they obviously missed Peoples remains.
What's the harm in it?
I agree with MT and anonymass: Everyone needs to move on. These people died 5 years ago, and while I feel for those who lost loved ones, it is important for them to carry on and come to peace with their loss. The Memorial needs to be built, and if they unearth more bodies in the process then by all means, have those identified. But keep things moving forward, the last thing we need right now is another stymied search process that will hold up contruction for another 2 years.
How would I feel if they kept finding body parts of my relatives? I wouldn't feel anything. I would have moved on. How do I know? Because the body parts of one of my relatives is scattered somewhere in Iraq. Get over yourselves.
What happened to getting things done the right way, the first time?
what do you want, a medal? todd?
I thought they should forget about it too until the large body parts turned up. If nothing is done and they find another cache of body parts in six months this will start all over again. Do it now and do it right.
amen MT!
This may sound crass but they should stop looking and stop reporting this stuff when they find it.
If I had a relative perish, the absolute last thing I would want to hear is "we found a body part." It's gruesome, sensationalistic, and honestly I can't see it as anything other than a disservice to the relatives and to the city as a whole. I'm speaking personally of course, but I really have a hard time understand what someone is supposed to do with that kind of knowledge.
Do you have a second burial? Really - what?