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The Mayor should check out the Memorial website

http://www.renewnyc.com/Memorial/default.asp

Here is the overview of the Memorial  

From its very inception, the centerpiece of the LMDC’s planning efforts has been the creation of a fitting memorial to those lost on September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993. The over 6-acre memorial, Reflecting Absence, will ensure that future generations will know where the towers once stood and will never forget each individual life taken during those tragic days. An over 100,000 square-foot interpretive museum underground, the Memorial Center, will tell the countless individual and collective stories of the attacks. Through its historic and authentic location, it will recognize the rescue and recovery efforts and the innumerable acts of heroism that emerged from the tragedy.

The over 6-acre memorial, Reflecting Absence, will ensure that future generations will know where the towers once stood and will . An over 100,000 square-foot interpretive museum underground, the Memorial Center, will tell the countless individual and collective stories of the attacks. Through its historic and authentic location, it will recognize the rescue and recovery efforts and the innumerable acts of heroism that emerged from the tragedy. 

The over 6-acre memorial, Reflecting Absence, will ensure that future generations will know where the towers once stood and will . An over 100,000 square-foot interpretive museum underground, the Memorial Center, will tell the countless individual and collective stories of the attacks. Through its historic and authentic location, it will recognize the rescue and recovery efforts and the innumerable acts of heroism that emerged from the tragedy.The over 6-acre memorial, Reflecting Absence, will ensure that future generations will know where the towers once stood and will . An over 100,000 square-foot interpretive museum underground, the Memorial Center, will tell the countless individual and collective stories of the attacks. Through its historic and authentic location, it will recognize the rescue and recovery efforts and the innumerable acts of heroism that emerged from the tragedy.Sounds to us like this Memorial was going to be about the victims.

Not according to our Mayor.

Doesn’t he realize that he will not even be in office when this is completed.

It also doesn’t make sense that he is the sole authority on this.

This is not even NYC property for if it were they would be building by NYC Building and Fire codes.

Funny you don’t see him taking a stand on that.

It is pretty pathetic with this administration it has never been about the victims.

From the recovery effort to the search for remains.

From the remains at Fresh Kills to the health benefits for responders.

It has never been about the victims and as long as the mayor is in charge it never will.

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“This is not a memorial just for the families, this is a memorial for America,” Bloomberg said Thursday. “We’ve found a ways to display the names in a ways that will, I think, show the enormity of the tragedy and at the same time show that everybody is equal.”

We need to go after him on his comments.

If this is America’s Memorial then why is there no flag?

When did this not become about the victims?

If not about the victims then obviously it cannot be a memorial.

We really need to reach out to the families and tell them not to contribute.

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Mayor talks with gov, not changing 9/11 memorial names plan

http://www.where-to-turn.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=35806

 No human remains were recovered today

The search will continue but for some reason testing for human remains will not continue until Monday.

Also the press has been informed that 27 remains (we don’t know if they are from the current or original search) and that they were from previously identified victims. We have not been notified.

When we learn why we will let you know.

Totals through 2/22

766 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
114 - Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)

1089 Total as of 2/22/07

NEW SEARCH

Remains recovered 1089

Remains sent for testing 0

DNA extracted 0

Matches 0

WTC Items Recovered 0

ORIGINAL SEARCH

Remains Recovered Over 20,000

Remains sent for testing NA

DNA extracted NA

Matches NA

Remains tested with new process NA

DNA Extracted NA

Matches NA

WTC Items Recovered NA

(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)

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VETS FORCED TO CHALLENGE THE SYSTEM AT WALTER REED

A Bleak Homecoming

Next year, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system expects to treat 263,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, a number three times what the VA initially projected. “The number of veterans coming into the VA health care system has been rising by about 5 percent a year, as the number of people returning from Iraq with illnesses or injuries keep rising.” President Bush has promised that our nation would “keep its commitments to those who have risked their lives for our freedom.” “We owe them all we can give them,” Bush said after a visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. “Not only for when they’re in harm’s way, but when they come home to help them adjust if they have wounds, or help them adjust after their time in service.” Yet as the number of soldiers injured in Iraq continues to grow, the VA health care system is “buckling under a growing volume of disability claims and rising demand for medical attention.” As of last month, the VA system was experiencing a backlog of 600,000 cases, “with about 168,000 pending for at least six months.” “There are VA facilities that were fine in peacetime but are now finding themselves overwhelmed,” said Steve Robinson, director of Veterans for American. Recent reporting has brought more dire news: the Washington Post discovered soldiers housed at Walter Reed face the “bleakest” of homecomings; McClatchy found the VA is “ill-equipped” to handle the increasing number of returning soldiers who need treatment for mental health; and the Associated Press revealed that the recent Bush budget contains funding cuts for veterans. (See where major veterans service organizations believe funding levels for veterans should be in their annual Independent Budget.) “Our veterans’ mental and physical health is not something to play games with,” the Macon Telegraph wrote recently. “They have served their country, and their country has an absolute obligation to return the favor.”

WALTER REED IS NO ‘CROWN JEWEL’: Dana Priest and Anne Hull of the Washington Post revealed over the weekend that Walter Reed, once perceived as the “crown jewel of military medicine,” has become “something else entirely — a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients.” “While the hospital is a place of scrubbed-down order and daily miracles,” Priest and Hull write, “the outpatients in the Other Walter Reed encounter a messy bureaucratic battlefield nearly as chaotic as the real battlefields they faced overseas.” The “legions” of injured soldiers housed at the facility has “grown so exponentially” that “they take up every available bed on post and spill into dozens of nearby hotels and apartments leased by the Army.” Building 18, which for many soldiers “symbolizes the indifference and neglect that many of the wounded say they experience at Walter Reed,” “has been plagued with mold, leaky plumbing and a broken elevator.” Life for many in the hospital resembles a chapter out of the novel “Catch-22“: “The wounded manage other wounded. Soldiers dealing with psychological disorders of their own have been put in charge of others at risk of suicide.” Priest admitted Walter Reed’s dilapidated condition was “surprising.” “We think that the American — we know that the American people support the troops, no matter what they think of the war,” Priest said on last night’s edition of PBS Newshour. “And so, when we started hearing these stories of neglect, and in some cases indifference, it was unbelievable.”

MISHANDLING MENTAL HEALTH: “[I]t is the invisible psychological harm — primarily post-traumatic stress disorder — that is the most pervasive and pernicious injury from this war and that is emerging as its signature disability,” the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote. “Veterans’ advocates say it is the number-one issue facing soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.” Thirty-five percent of Iraq veterans received mental health care after returning home, and 12 percent were diagnosed with a mental health ailment. Despite the staggering figures, the “VA isn’t prepared to give these returning soldiers the care that could best help them overcome destructive, and sometimes fatal,” illnesses. McClatchy Newspapers found the “average veteran with psychiatric troubles gets almost one-third fewer visits with specialists than he would have received a decade ago.” In addition, treatment quality differs dramatically across the country: “Montana, for example, ranks fourth in sending troops to war, but last in the percentage of VA visits for mental healthcare in 2005.” Funding problems have plagued the VA’s ability to provide proper mental health care. A Government Accountability Office report found last year the VA “did not spend all of the extra $300 million it budgeted to increase mental health services and failed to keep track of how some of the money was used.”

CONGRESS CAN HELP SOLDIERS STILL IN THE FIELD: Nearly four years since the Iraq war began, soldiers still lack proper equipment on the battlefield. In a survey conducted last year, the Pentagon Inspector General’s office “found that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan lack sufficient armored vehicles, heavy weapons such as artillery or large machine guns, devices designed to jam signals used to detonate roadside bombs, and communications equipment.” “As a result,” the survey found, “service members performed missions without the proper equipment, used informal procedures to obtain equipment and sustainment support, and canceled or postponed missions while waiting to receive equipment.” Military families are still raising money on their own to buy their loved ones the most state-of-the-art body armor. The Center for American Progress has repeatedly called for Congress to provide full equipment reset funding for the Army and Marines. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) has said he will unveil legislation next month that would set strict standards for troop readiness before soldiers are sent to Iraq as part of Bush’s escalation plan. Under the Murtha plan, troops would have to be “full combat ready” before deploying, “troops must have at least one year at home between combat deployments; combat assignments could not be extended beyond one year;” and “a ’stop-loss’ program forcing soldiers to extend their enlistment periods would be prohibited.” Learn more about the Murtha plan here.

The Silent Toll: Medics Left Out in the Cold

http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2399367&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.1.1

4 human remains were recovered today at 11 Water Street.

Totals through 2/21

766 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
114 - Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)

1089 Total as of 2/21/07

NEW SEARCH

Remains recovered 1089

Remains sent for testing 0

DNA extracted 0

Matches 0

WTC Items Recovered 0

ORIGINAL SEARCH

Remains Recovered Over 20,000

Remains sent for testing NA

DNA extracted NA

Matches NA

Remains tested with new process NA

DNA Extracted NA

Matches NA

WTC Items Recovered NA

(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)

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It seems we are getting at least some support as to the placement of names from Spitzer and Corzine. (See article form NY Post below)

We need to keep up the pressure on the remains and safety issues as well.

ELIOT SPIKES MIKE’S PLAN FOR WTC LIST

http://www.where-to-turn.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=35745

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I received this today any help would be greatly appreciated

I am due 9/25/07 and of course with a decreased pulmonary function I am placed at a disadvantage and on on thursday I will be 46 yrs old which puts me at high risk immediately.

I was wondering if any of you know the answer to this:

Any women who were at the WTC on 9/11 and post 9/11, those who had children, Are the chilren ok?

Is there something I need to monitor?

Please contact me at:

clipedwingangel@yahoo.com

Thank You.

To All,Once again reports of the mistreatment of our Veterans have made the headlines. Click the link below for the details of the roach and rat infested living conditions that the out patients from Walter Reed must endure.

http://www.iava.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2380&Itemid=116

Once again we call on our elected officials to do something about this and as well as the inadequate resources for the families of those killed in combat.

400 Billion Has been allocated for the war in Iraq and we have to rely on private contributions to build proper rehabilitation facilities for our injured soldiers.

Even 4 Billion or 1% of this budget would go a long way to rectify this situation.

It is a pretty sad state of affairs when there will be probably be more money spent on presidential campaigns then will be allocated to the support of our injured veterans and the families of those killed in combat.

We have been asking for support for some time (see links below) and we will continue till something is done.

Dennis

OUR FALLEN HEROES …SOMEONE FINALLY LISTENED (POSTED MARCH 3, 2006)

http://www.where-to-turn.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17852