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Archaeology 9/11
NMB, Florida March 13, 2002 A.H. Schectman
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Essays on Issues, Ideas and Reflections on the Times. Published Now and
Then. Opinions Pro or Con Are Welcome.
ARCHAEOLOGY 9/11
Six months after THE terrorist attack that leveled the Twin Towers in NYC
archaeology still reveals victims daily.
The honorable profession of digging through remains of ancient
civilizations to discover how people lived and died is carried out by slowly
sifting through sands of time to find scraps. These bits and pieces are
usually crumbs that ultimately piece together the story of a living society.
This has required specialized tools developed over several hundred years of
practice.
Rarely have the remains of deliberately destroyed cities been completely
obliterated so nothing at all remains to speak for the once living.
Freaks of nature - the buried cities around the volcano Vesuvius - were
recorded by eyewitnesses but they have been slowly recovered.
9/11 and "ground zero" will remain in our memories for they were captured
by recording devices and the removal of the rubble has been meticulously
followed by fascinated millions. But the remains will be gone.
The remains of the two towers and much of the surrounding territory was
reduced to pulverized dust. The weight of the mass of material that was
burned and twisted into ruins is unimaginable. It has been difficult for
the workers removing the remains to be able to identify and reconstruct much
of the life that once pulsed there. Very little of those who died there
will be left so layers upon layers of succeeding civilizations may on one
future day be uncovered for researchers to reconstruct how the ancients
lived there on 9/10.
The archaeology of 9/11 is ongoing and we know a great deal about those who
committed the crime and the victims who perished from their act. We have
learned a great deal by studying the details and the remains but we do not
understand why it happened.
Carol's Evaluation: 10 out of 10.
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