A group of families of victims of the September 11, 2001 attack is demanding that the Bloomberg administration help them poll other family members or other related people of the victims about where unidentified remains of the dead should be kept. Currently, the human remains are being kept with the medical examiner of the remains.
The plan of the city and the administration of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum is to put the remains in a room below the museum. Museum visitors would know the location of the remains which would be marked by a sign but not be able to see them. The families strongly disapproved of this plan saying that placing them below ground level would not be honorable and respectful. David Hurst Thomas, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, an expert on the repatriation of American Indian remains at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, support the families’ effort to keep the remains separate from the museum.
On the night of June 1, 2011, ten families sent letters to City Hall asking for a list of names and addresses of the other families of more than 2,700 people who were killed in the World Trade Center attack, caused by Al Qaeda. The information would be used to send letters of inquiry on what they wanted done with the unidentified remains. This request was turned down by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for the confidentiality of their personal information. He said, “Many family members would rightly be outraged if the city made their personal information, including home addresses, public, and of course that is not something we will do.”
Michael Frazier, a spokesman for the museum, publicized a five-page summary of communications between memorial planners and the families of the 9/11 victims, which started in July, 2002 and ended in June, 2006.
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