by Lionel Bascom — October 29th, 2006 — 1 comment
While the bedfellows of politics were celebrating the resurrection of the World Trade Center, the families of the victims of 9/11 faded into the background noise of all the celebrating over the Freedom Tower. Mike Kelly of the Bergen (County) Record takes not of this in a recent column.
“The supposedly hallowed landscape know as Ground Zero speaks in two voices now,” Kelly writes. “At one end of the site, the thump of jackhammers tells you about the beginnings of the Freedom Tower skyscraper. At the other, the slow scraping of earth by a backhoe tells you about the unfinished task of find victims’ bodies. The recovery and identification of human remains at Ground Zero has become a painful, unclosed wound for victims’ families.”
The silence of family victims is over now. What they felt … that the search had ended too soon … is the fact of the matter. Now what?
The government botched the recovery. It looks like they’re botching the task of repopulating Ground Zero too.
Critics who said family members were just too sensitive about what should be done with the most expensive real estate in the world. Well maybe the critics can be silent now because we’ve still got some gruesome work to do.
8:14 PM in Uncategorized, The Construction, Ground Zero, Freedom Tower News, Politics
I find it difficult to believe that a 9/11 victim’s family would consider it ‘gruesome’ to resurrect a loved one’s bones after all this time. We must keep the fragile emotions of these families in our hearts and minds and speak of any activity surrounding this dreadful event of five years ago with utmost respect. In addition, agencies responsible for addressing these delicate issues need to proceed with appropriate alacrity.
We owe this dignity to the innocent victims of 9/11 and their surviving families.
Jeanne · October 29th, 2006 at 8:58 pm