| To: Governor Pataki,
Mayor Bloomberg & Members of the City Council
WTC Families for Proper Burial
Realizing that the ashes of many of those killed at the World Trade
Center on September 11, 2001, have been unceremoniously left at the
Fresh Kills Landfill, a city garbage dump, we, the undersigned families,
friends and concerned citizens, agree with and support the mission of
the WTC Families for Proper Burial:
<> To ensure the removal from The Fresh Kills landfill of the “ashen
remains” of those killed on September 11, 2001.
<> To place these ashen remains in appropriate containers.
<> To return these ashen remains to The World Trade Center site to be
part of the planned WTC memorial for their respectful, dignified and
final resting place.
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“My Daddy is not garbage,” as spoken by a child who lost her father at
The World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, speaks to the heart of
this issue. In order to alert the public to a gross indignity being
committed against those killed on September 11, 2001, a newly formed
advocacy group, “WTC Families for Proper Burial,” has been established.
The group includes families, friends and concerned citizens from across
the United States and abroad. One of their goals is to inform the public
that the ashen remains of those killed at the World Trade Center have
been left in a dump, The Fresh Kills Landfill, in Staten Island, NY.
Requests to retrieve these remains for a proper burial have been
ignored.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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