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Trade center families rally for proper burial PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 01 September 2004
By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press Writer

September 1, 2004


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.

About 40 relatives and friends of Sept. 11 victims attended the rally and prayer service Wednesday at the southeast corner of the trade center site.

Among them was Lee Hanson of Easton, Conn., holding a photo of his son, daughter-in-law and 2-year-old granddaughter, who were on one of the hijacked planes that hit the towers.

"The thought of their bones as small as they may be, or their ashes, as spread out as they may be being in a dump hurts us very very much," Hanson said.

Most speakers made no reference to the Republican National Convention taking place a few miles to the north.

But Howard Gabler, who escaped from the 46th floor of 1 World Trade Center but lost his son on the 104th floor, said he would like the convention delegates "to know what's going on here."

"Those delegates, I am sure, to a person will profess their great faith and their great American spirit and their patriotism," Gabler said. "What's happened here, by maintaining a garbage dump as a burial place for our loved ones is both immoral and un-American."

The group wants city officials to remove the fine-dust remains of the victims from the landfill and bring them back to the trade center site to be part of a planned memorial there.

The administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has repeatedly opposed the idea of moving the "fines," the name given to the blood, bone and human ashes that are believed to be mingled with the cement dust and pulverized glass from the collapsed buildings. The city has cited the enormous cost of removing more than a million tons of the material and insists that all identifiable human remains have already been removed.

Fresh Kills was the world's largest garbage dump when it was shut down in 2001.


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--sept11-landfill0901sep01,0,5915633.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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