In the two decades since 9/11, memorials have been built at the crash sites in New York City, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and in a field in Pennsylvania. But the family is grateful it was found because “it’s the only thing we have of him that was down there, that was with him.” “Of course, it’s mangled,” says Hunter’s sister, Teresa Hunter Labo. In February 2002, searchers at ground zero recovered a Squad 288 helmet bearing Hunter’s badge number. He was one of 2,977 people killed on 9/11 when al Qaeda hijackers used passenger jets as weapons in the deadliest ever terrorist attack. (Five things to know about new documentary 9/11: One Day in America.)Įighteen days shy of his 32nd birthday, Firefighter Joseph Gerard Hunter of FDNY Squad 288 died helping evacuate the World Trade Centre’s south tower. When his mother, Bridget, worried, he’d tell her, “If anything ever happens, just know I loved the job.” He started as a volunteer fireman, graduated from the New York City Fire Department academy, took rescue training for terrorist attacks and building collapses. At 11, he’d run fire rescue drills with a ladder and a garden hose, and if his pals didn’t take it seriously, he sent them home: “OK, you-out!” At age four, he’d pedal his Big Wheel to the corner as the red trucks passed. Joe Hunter’s dreams rode on fire engines. The forces that Joe Hunter and hundreds of other people summoned on September 11, 2001. Endurance in the face of the unspeakable. Although swimming in the water is prohibited, about 50 people have lost their lives in the water since the end of World War II.What forces can sanctify an object, giving it meaning beyond itself? Selflessness. The lake is contaminated with various toxic substances. The Silbersee is at the base of the disposal. Silberbuck is in the Dutzendteich recreation area and former Reichsparteitagsgelände. Initially the removed rubble was piled up on a rubble mountain called Monte Scherbelino, before the material was recycled and processed to such an extent that by 1964 the pile of rubble had completely disappeared. To remove and recycle the rubble the city authorities in the autumn of 1945 created the non-profit Trümmerverwertungsgesellschaft which was tasked with removing the rubble and recycling it. The amount of debris in Berlin is about 15 percent of the total rubble in the whole of Germany. 0.66 million m 3 (23 million cu ft) below the water level of Silbersee) Großer and Kleiner Bunkerberg ( Volkspark Friedrichshain)ġ0 to 12 million m 3 (350 to 420 million cu ft)ĥ.53 million m 3 (195 million cu ft) (approx. Oderbruchkippe (Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg) Known Schuttberge Schuttberge in major German cities Most major cities in Germany have at least one Schuttberg. These types are more specifically termed Trümmerberg (rubble mountain) and are known colloquially by various namesakes such as Mont Klamott (Mount Rag), Monte Scherbelino (Mount Shard), and Scherbelberg (Shard Mountain). Many were amassed following the extensive damage from strategic bombing during World War II. Schuttberg (English: debris hill) is a German term for a mound made of rubble or out of a rubbish heap. The Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg (Oderbruchkippe) in Berlin
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