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If they really want to honor their "comrades" (starting to hate that word, too), they would lobby the city to entomb the site and let the unrecovered victims rest in peace.
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How many of your family, friends, colleagues, and coworkers are buried in that pile of shit? One, two, maybe?
Damn sure not 300.
Shut the hell up, you piece of trash. They have a brotherhood because they've been someplace most of us have not been. A place most of us will never go: Into a fire. Not just risking death, but risking [b]burning[/b] to death.
All for what in most cases amounts to an eventual pile of ashes.
And a few human lives.
So yeah, they do have a 'brotherhood.' Because every single one of them has been there, and every single one of them knows what it's like.
We bitch and moan on this board all about how valiant and patriotic we'll be, keyboard commandos and chairborne rangers all, when we [b]gun down[/b] The Man as he comes for our guns.
But suddenly all these firefighters are stupid and childish, and need to 'get over it,' all because they want to see a few of their own dug out and dealt with in a proper manner. And all because they [b]protested[b] to do it. Because they crossed a few barricades onto a plot of land that they have every right to be on.
Why is a protest worse than killing?
How about a few of you pony up a dead relative or friend that we can go bury, in pieces, in a damned landfill. Amongst garbage.
Because no matter how much the firefighters lobby, they won't entomb this site. Money talks in NY, and that's valuable space. Several blocks of it. And no amount of lobbying will equal the number of zeroes tacked to the end of the appraisal value on that land.
They just want the chance to bring their friends home.