Did the city of New York search enough for the remains of 9/11 victims for a proper burial?

Question

The remains of about 40 percent of the victims were never recovered, and hundreds of bone fragments have been discovered in and around Ground Zero in the last six months, the lawsuit says.
Eric Beck, a construction worker employed at the Fresh Kills landfill in the borough of Staten Island, where the rubble was taken after the Twin Towers fell, said in his affidavit that the process of sifting through the debris was rushed.
Beck said he saw sanitation workers removing small pieces of debris containing possible bone fragments and loading them "onto tractors, and using it to pave roads and fill in potholes, dips and ruts."

Answer 1

I believe that they did all that they could to recover as much as they could. What a horrible thing to have had happened. People lost their lives while trying to recover the dead. Lets try to think about the hero's who did all that they could to recover those who lost their lives. Please don't disrespect them. This is still fresh in the hearts of the American public.

Answer 2

The searched enough. Not near as many people were killed in Oklahoma City and all they could identify my brother in law by was an ankle fragment.
I would imagine after such a catastrophic event as the towers coming down, everything looked like rubble, being covered with ash, dust, burning areas......
How long should they look - until 100% recovery? I do not think that is realistic.

Answer 3

I believe they did. Of course the search was rushed, thats becuase the city of New York had a mountain of ruble to clean and remove. Although it is regretable that many remains were not recovered, it is was imperative that New York take into consideration the health of the living. The ruble and dust was a major health concern. Take into consideration the amount of time it would take to thouroly search through the dangerous dust and rubble.

In short, it simply would have only cost more lives looking for the remains of the dead. There is no point in spending lives over lives spent.

Answer 4

There were over ONE MILLION TONS of debris as a result of the collapse of the twin towers that took over a year to clean up. If you want to hire and army of people to sift through over 2 TRILLION pounds of debris looking for bone fragments, then be my guest. Otherwise I'm not sure it's reasonable for you or the families to expect a proper burial with a bone fragment or two.

Answer 5

Real hard to look for remains when the remains were pulverized into teeny tiny pieces and spewed across the island.Sept 12 the area below 14 st was closed to anyone who did not live in that area. I have friends who told me that it wasn't pretty. Did you notice the media does not say how big the pieces are.

Answer 6

It just proves that no matter what you do some one will find fault with what you did.

I feel that they tried & spent more time trying to find bodies than they needed to. Let it go,

But some lawyer some where will stir this all up & feel that the public is to blame & the poor souls & him will need big bucks to have clouser.

Answer 7

I don't know what rock you climbed out from but,all of the rescuers were exhausted looking for them, and the important thing was to find the ones that were still alive--- I think they did an outstanding job...and shame on you for how you look on this situation...

Answer 8

Heck yes. When the fire fighters were told to pull out,that they did all they could, they refused. They didn't want to quit. It was an impossible situation.

Answer 9

They did the best they were able to unless your a conspiracy whack job. If that's the case they could never do enough.

Answer 10

With that all behind us, I do believe the recovery efforts were done to the best of thier ability...

Such a tragic loss.... such an idiot question