Families Of 9/11 Victims File Lawsuit Seeking Dignified Burials : NY1

World Trade Center family members who lost loved ones in the 9/11 terror attacks have filed a federal lawsuit seeking the "dignified burial" of ashen remains and body fragments bulldozed into Staten Island's Fresh Kills landfill.

The group "WTC Families for Proper Burial" said Wednesday it wants the ashen remains and body fragments still in the now-closed landfill to be buried in a cemetery.

I may have breathed into my body the dust that once was the human beings incinerated in the World Trade Center. Anything that could have been identified as being human remains was long ago separated from the landfill. What is in the landfill is only the dust and tiniest of fragments of once was living human beings — as one of the plantiffs said "microscopic".

As the mayor already declared, it would take hundreds of millions to remove the landfill and return it to the World Trade Center site.

I don't think the remains have been treated with disrespect. Here's the real problem: while there's massive rebuilding around the WTC site, the WTC site is locked into disputes over who's in charge and what's going to be built there.