Amusing

Today is my "first" day back at work (I'm at home, won't go in until Monday). I just spoke to my boss, who told me my colleague who is due this month, left the office this morning with a look of pain on her face as if this is it. I guess I'm coming back to the office just in time!

Petition for WTC Families for Proper Burial

Please take a moment to sign the petition on this website requesting
that the ashes of those killed at the World Trade Center on September
11, 2001 be removed from the Fresh Kills Landfill (a city garbage
dump) and be given a proper burial. The petition is being sent to
Mayor Bloomberg and members of the NYC council. You do not have to
be a family member to sign the petition. The mayor's office has
indicated that he will not do anything unless family members can
prove that September 11th families, and other individuals, really
care about this issue. Please forward this petition to others.

WTC Families for Proper Burial

http://www.petitiononline.com/WTCASHES/petition.html

Below is the press release:

"My Daddy is not garbage," as spoken by a child who lost her father
at The World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, speaks to the heart
of this issue. In order to alert the public to a gross indignity
being committed against those killed on September 11, 2001, a newly
formed advocacy group, "WTC Families for Proper Burial," has been
established. The group includes families, friends and concerned
citizens from across the United States and abroad. One of their goals
is to inform the public that the ashen remains of those killed at the
World Trade Center have been left in a dump, The Fresh Kills
Landfill, in Staten Island, NY. Requests to retrieve these remains
for a proper burial have been ignored.

The mission of the WTC Families for Proper Burial is, "to ensure the
removal from the Fresh Kills Landfill of the "ashen remains" of those
killed on September 11, 2001; to place these ashen remains in
appropriate containers; and to return these ashen remains to the
World Trade Center site to be part of the planned WTC memorial for
their respectful, dignified and final resting place"

All concerned individuals are asked to join. As Marcee Robertson, who
lost her son, Donald, said, "In this effort we are all an extended
family, a family of humanity." For further information, please
contact: WTCFamiliesforProperBurial@comcast.net

Realizing that the ashes of many of those killed at the World Trade
Center on September 11, 2001, have been unceremoniously left at the
Fresh Kills Landfill, a city garbage dump, we, the undersigned
families, friends and concerned citizens, agree with and support the
mission of the WTC Families for Proper Burial:

<> To ensure the removal from The Fresh Kills landfill of the "ashen
remains" of those killed on September 11, 2001.

<> To place these ashen remains in appropriate containers.

<> To return these ashen remains to The World Trade Center site to be
part of the planned WTC memorial for their respectful, dignified and
final resting place.