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2007-03-25 Home Front: WoT

Remains of 9/11 Victims May Fill New York City Potholes

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Posted by Dave D. 2007-03-25 11:12|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Personally, this culture of grief and memorials has gone too far...

Genesis 3:19

"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

Posted by John Frum 2007-03-25 11:23|| 2007-03-25 11:23|| Front Page Top

#2 He does make a good point though..

there should be a common symbolic mass burial site with a memorial headstone where the family members can visit.
Either at a nearby cemetery or on a small portion of the site.
But this wish to entomb all of the debris and the banning of building on the footprints of the towers is carrying things too far.

Posted by John Frum 2007-03-25 11:43|| 2007-03-25 11:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Agreed; but its hardly going too far to expect them to refrain from using the deathloam as pothole-filler.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-25 11:56|| 2007-03-25 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 This to me seems less offensive than dumping it at a landfill.
Was there no piece of barren land available, some deserted quarry, some site offshore, where the material could have been deposited?
A landfill? With the trash?

Posted by John Frum 2007-03-25 12:10|| 2007-03-25 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 We've scattered a few friends of mine in the "potato patch" [Pacific Ocean] just outside the Golden Gate Bridge.

The last one was a Engineer/Architect buddy of mine who was a Seabee in the 50s. It was a warm sunny day with a slight inshore breeze and 6 porpoises played around the bow as we scattered Ray's ashes into the blue green water.

I'd like that myself but I wouldn't mind if my ashes served the useful purpose of filling a pot hole. After-all I've spent my entire life working in either Heavy and/or Residential construction.

Posted by RD 2007-03-25 14:35|| 2007-03-25 14:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Filling a pot-hole is pretty useful. I'd rather be there than with the Pampers in the landfill. Course I really want to launched to Alpha-Luv Beta, the planet of try-it-again, this time with superior massage.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-03-25 16:11|| 2007-03-25 16:11|| Front Page Top

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