by: Phil Jayhan & Larry McWilliams
We have all read bits and pieces about the 911 Victims memorial wall which went up in lightning speed, across from the world trade center. And the research has been scattered across many post and is time for its own thread.
- First, the posters went up in the first 2 days after 911. Most of them were missing posters. If you see so and so, please call,.... This is not even likely, much less believable. Most of the people who allegedly worked at the world trade center did not live anywhere close to it. Secondly, if your wife or sister worked at the WTC and didn't come home, are you going to spend your time calling hospitals and morgues or are you going to put up a missing poster? As if your wife or mother might be bruised, bloodied and injured, covered in dust, bumping around on the walls of new york city, just waiting for someone who has seen one of your missing posters to rescue you?
- Many of the posters were put up using the same extra wide scotch tape or packing tape. If the memorial wall were real, made by the victims families, there would be all sorts of different tape used to attach the posters to the wall. Hundreds of different people are not going to bring the same type of tape for their "missing 911 victims posters..."
- Many of these "missing posters" which presumably had phone numbers on them for easy contact in case their loved ones were found wandering the streets of the city ended up being used for the official 9/11 CNN memorial website. Why use a crappy picture of a poster which is weathered and warped, when their is the phone number of a family member to call for a picture, and better yet, a story?
- It appears that the 9/11 victims memorial wall was put up, not by grieving family members missing their loved ones, but another group of people trying to actually prove the existence of these "missing people" from 9/11. It also appears this was a cheap attempt to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. As they also used the wall in a cynical attempt to degrade the peoples photographs and images even further, by taking 3rd generation photographs of the people listed on the wall from a video camera. Making the peoples images even more unrecognizable. This would normally be considered sacrilege.
Posters of some of the missing in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center plasted the walls of 90 and 88 Lexington Avenue near the state armory at 26th Street where bereaved families sought information from public officials. This photograph and the one beneath were taken September 29, 2001 and were all the more heart-breaking because some were stained by the weather and wind and not too many people stood in front of them. To stand before these pieces of paper and read many of them was extremely emotional. These were the specifics, the faces, the names of the lost. These were the haunting, meager memories.
"Can't Cry Hard Enough - 9/11 Tribute that Millions Cried to over and over again"
Cheers-
Phil
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