Trade Center Families Rally For 'Proper Burial'

[Khephra]

NEW YORK -- Family members of World Trade Center victims rallied at ground zero Wednesday to urge the city to remove the ashen remains of their loved ones from a landfill mound where debris was sorted after the terrorist attack.

"We are tired of being ignored by elected officials," said Diane Horning of Scotch Plains, N.J., whose son, Matthew, was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack. "We are here to send our message out to the entire nation and to the international community that this indignity against the dead will not be tolerated."

Horning's group, WTC Families for Proper Burial, has collected 47,000 signatures to press for what its members call a more dignified resting place for the remains particles.

The group was formed after the city Department of Planning announced plans to develop Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill, where trade center debris was taken, into the city's largest park.

http://www.wnbc.com/wtc/3699213/detail.html

[Kadie]

1. kick

[Coventina]

2. WHA???????

Are you freakin' kidding me?????

I had NO IDEA that the human remains from the WTC had not received proper burial! Now THAT is an insult!! Holy crap! I just can't get my head around this one. They're in a LANDFILL?!?!? And the GOP is partying over where they fell?!?!? Holy Christ and Saints preserve us!

I...I...I...I have to go lay down for awhile I think. I think I've hit my outrage limit for today....

[Khephra]

3. I know exactly what you mean

That's when I usually go out for dinner.

:hi:

[Coventina]

4. wave back

:hi:

Thanks for all you do to keep us informed!