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WTC Families for Proper Burial?

Germantown, TN In response AP writer Marcus Franklin’s recent article detailing  WTC families’ outrage over the
recent discovery of bones found by utility workers, Germantown, TN freelance author Jennifer Cummins is expressing
her outrage at the New York City news conference scheduled to be held today by the group WTC Families for Proper
Burial.  As approximately 42 percent of the remains recovered have been identified in the large scale, five-year search
since the WTC attack by the latest technology available, and identifications have been put on hold, indefinitely, she is
questioning the group to justify their request and identify just how they feel the city workers, by turning over the remains,
were being “cavalier”

Charles Wolf’s wife was on the 97th floor of one of two towers, destroyed by two planes, by an unforeseen, unplanned-
for attack on United States soil. The fact that the remains were recovered at all in a city as large as New York, are
nothing short of a miracle. To find and identify the occupants in the two towers, the two planes and on the ground amidst
the amount of rubble of all the collapsed buildings, and the mess of the cleanup, has got to have caused the city, the
country, and the taxpayers, millions, even billions, in costs that will continue to accrue into the future.

As for calling for a “qualified independent party”, can anyone name a party that won’t be questioned, tried, and
disqualified at the slightest misstep by another so-called group protecting yet another self-identified interest? Remains of
the WTC tragedy will most likely be found for decades to come.  Ms. Cummins is not aware of a group waiting for the
remains to be located and found of the Pearl Harbor victims, demanding answers and identification of their loved ones,
given new DNA technology.

Ms. Cummins questions the ethics of the WTC Families for Proper Burial. What exactly are they seeking, after five
years of continuing grief and agony? A piece of DNA that will confirm their individual loved one, who has not turned up
for five years, actually was in the WTC at that time and is dead? If remains are not found, are the families ready to
release any funds they have been paid in good faith by life insurance carriers? Are they ready to refund any
compensation made in goodwill by fellow citizens who came to their aid in the aftermath of horror of the tragedy?

Ms. Cummins asks that groups such as these refrain from heaping criticism upon local citizens, leaders, workers, and
persons involved who are attempting to “do the right thing” and meet their own ethical standards by turning in remains, in
the name of grace. The remains could have been left, discarded or otherwise ignored, but the employees turned them in
for identification. That was a good thing, an American thing. Moreover, the American thing that keeps us free and is why
we continue to search for new technology to identify the remains indefinitely as a good will gesture. Americans honor
those who died, just as those that killed Americans and others dishonored the lives they took. The call for a “pound of
flesh” is misdirected at best.

Jennifer Cummins is a freelance writer in Germantown, TN and can be contacted at www.OmnibusWriting.com
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worth a day's journey backward.....  

Jennifer Cummins
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