The father of a young 9/11 victim believes the resumption of the search for human remains in the debris of the World Trade Center is a shameful case of too-little, too-late political maneuvering.
“This failure to sift through all of the remains is just part and parcel of what we’ve been put through by people like Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg and others,’’ Peter Gadiel told Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show.’’
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“People who tried to turn the 9/11 memorial into some kind of political statement about all of the wrongs and misdeeds involved in humanity in the past thousand years instead of being dedicated to the victims of 9/11. It’s just one additional thing.’’
Last month, New York City officials emailed victims’ families to tell them that about 60 dump trucks full of debris — collected from construction sites around the World Trade Center site — will be sifted through.
The 10-week project will be conducted by forensic scientists on Staten Island.
Gadiel, president of 9/11 Families For a Secure America, said he’s still not sure about the last moments of his 23-year-old son James, one of 2750 people who died when hijacked jets hit the Twin Towers.
“I have no remains of him and I have no clue as to what it was he went through on that day,’’ Gadiel said.
“I didn’t hear from him as some people did, which, I guess, is better because I don’t know the horror of what he went through, although I can imagine what it was like.’’
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