This is a crypt where the remains will be placed. A very deep crypt. This same type of entombment is conducted by churches. As a matter of fact, many Popes are buried under St. Peter's Basilica in a very similar manner.
This is the 8th and it will open to families by the 15th. Not many working days.
My first instinct is the families need to be heard. We have come this far with them and the tragedy so horrific and the insult to the sanity of these families as horrific as the tragedy; they deserve one last hearing. Some of the families received urns of ash and dust from the site. Now this. The mourning is going to start all over again.
It is more than appropriate for Deputy Mayor Barrios-Paoli to find the time in the next few days to open a comment period for the families and learn why they object. It is the right thing to do.
They should have unlimited access to the crypt. It should not cost them anything to enter the building. Security has to be respected, but, they can be issued credentials.
By Susan Edelman
More than 8,000 remains (click here) of unidentified victims of the 9/11 attacks will be moved from a medical examiner’s lab to the new museum at the World Trade Center on May 10, officials revealed.
“This transfer will be conducted in a dignified and respectful manner, while also ensuring the protection and security of the remains during the move,” Deputy Mayor Lilliam Barrios-Paoli told victims’ relatives in an e-mail Saturday. The National September 11th Memorial & Museum will welcome special guests — including first responders and family members of the victims — from May 15 to May 20. It opens to the general public on May 21.
The “remains repository” — in the basement, 70 feet below ground — will be hidden from public view behind a wall engraved with a quote by Virgil: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”
The space will include a medical examiner’s office and a “Reflection Room” available only to the victims’ families.
Retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches — whose firefighter son, Jimmy, died on 9/11 — and other relatives of victims have opposed keeping the remains at the museum, which will charge admission fees up to $24 for adults.
“It’s like paying to get into a cemetery,” Riches said.
This is the 8th and it will open to families by the 15th. Not many working days.
My first instinct is the families need to be heard. We have come this far with them and the tragedy so horrific and the insult to the sanity of these families as horrific as the tragedy; they deserve one last hearing. Some of the families received urns of ash and dust from the site. Now this. The mourning is going to start all over again.
It is more than appropriate for Deputy Mayor Barrios-Paoli to find the time in the next few days to open a comment period for the families and learn why they object. It is the right thing to do.
They should have unlimited access to the crypt. It should not cost them anything to enter the building. Security has to be respected, but, they can be issued credentials.
By Susan Edelman
More than 8,000 remains (click here) of unidentified victims of the 9/11 attacks will be moved from a medical examiner’s lab to the new museum at the World Trade Center on May 10, officials revealed.
“This transfer will be conducted in a dignified and respectful manner, while also ensuring the protection and security of the remains during the move,” Deputy Mayor Lilliam Barrios-Paoli told victims’ relatives in an e-mail Saturday. The National September 11th Memorial & Museum will welcome special guests — including first responders and family members of the victims — from May 15 to May 20. It opens to the general public on May 21.
The “remains repository” — in the basement, 70 feet below ground — will be hidden from public view behind a wall engraved with a quote by Virgil: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”
The space will include a medical examiner’s office and a “Reflection Room” available only to the victims’ families.
Retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches — whose firefighter son, Jimmy, died on 9/11 — and other relatives of victims have opposed keeping the remains at the museum, which will charge admission fees up to $24 for adults.
“It’s like paying to get into a cemetery,” Riches said.
