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Small Iron-y.
Author: Raine
Date: 08/30/2010 13:05:05
On Sunday, NYC presented the Arlington County Fire Department with a section of steel from the World Trade Center to honor the department's service during the September 11 attacks. There was a parade, and a presentation. I will do my very best to not be jaded today, as I do honestly believe that this is a decent cause. What I find strange, though is that much of the WTC steel remains were sold off for scrap metal in the months shortly after the attacks. Being pragmatic, this is really logical. Unlike the USS Arizona, which lays as a memorial at Pearl Harbour, the rubble around the WTC needed to be removed. There were many health reasons for that as well. That said, this is where the 'honor our dead at hallowed ground' argument doesn't add up for me. This stopped being hallowed ground when NYC decided to sell it's scrap steel to the highest bidder.
China purchased more than 50,000 tons of steel. In India, it is said that the iron would be used to make kitchen utensils, and China said it would not use the medal to make commemorative items, thus making a profit off of the September 11, attacks.
When people cry about something being morally reprehensible like the Muslim Community center in Downtown, remind them: the WTC Center was sold overseas to the highest bidder, That metal - like the one that we honor at parades like the one over the weekend in Arlington Virginia - is not only memorialized as scrap metal, but as frying pans as well. Yes we should honor our first responders, but we should stop holding up Downtown NYC as some sacred ground, especially when profits are made from it EVERY day.
Hallowed ground has already been outsourced to the highest bidder.
and 
Raine
The Fire Family Transport Foundation, which provides medical transportation to injured New York firefighters and their families, delivered its first piece of steel in 2003 to the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, said Eugene Stolowski, who works with the foundation and is a firefighter in the Bronx, N.Y.
Foundation officials decided in 2007 to start the motorcycle runs as fundraisers. The Iron and Steel team has delivered World Trade Center steel to the National Infantry Mueseum at Fort Benning, Ga., and to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Co., which responded to the crash of United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
More than $20,000 was raised by the bikers and other donations for the Shanksville run, which allowed the foundation to purchase a new car to transport families. The Fort Benning run raised about $15,000, Stolowski said, and a portion of the proceeds benefits the Wounded Warrior Project, which helps injured military personnel.
The Port Authority estimates more than 200,000 tons of steel was used in the World Trade Center's construction. Of that total, more than 168,000 tons has been salvaged from Ground Zero thus far, according to the New York City Office of Emergency Management
Three companies, Metal Management Northeast of Newark, N.J., Hugo Neu Schnitzer East of Jersey City and Blandford Land Development Corporation of Brooklyn, N.Y., have successfully bid for city contracts to recycle the steel, and continue to bid on what remains to be salvaged.
"Once they have it in their possession they in turn have the right to sell it," Matthew Monahan, City of New York Department of Design and Construction spokesman said. "It becomes their steel."
China purchased more than 50,000 tons of steel.
"Baosteel officials reached by Shanghai Daily, however, denied they will make keepsakes out of the debris, but declined to give more details of their plans, saying only that the scrap will be melted down and reprocessed into new steel products.
"Another shipment of 10,000 tons of scrap from the WTC arrived in India earlier this month, reported Shanghai Morning Post. The metal will be melted down and recycled into kitchenware and other household items, the paper said.
"India bought its lot at US$120 per ton from the New Jersey scrap processor Metal Management, which purchased 40,000 tons of the debflad of the United ris at an auction held by the New York City government. Dealers estimated that the WTC disaster created more than 300,000 tons of scrap metal."
When people cry about something being morally reprehensible like the Muslim Community center in Downtown, remind them: the WTC Center was sold overseas to the highest bidder, That metal - like the one that we honor at parades like the one over the weekend in Arlington Virginia - is not only memorialized as scrap metal, but as frying pans as well. Yes we should honor our first responders, but we should stop holding up Downtown NYC as some sacred ground, especially when profits are made from it EVERY day.
Hallowed ground has already been outsourced to the highest bidder.
and Raine
