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Gold9472
01-18-2010, 09:17 AM
9/11 endless nightmare

http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/city_desk_wired/index.php/2010/01/13/911-endless-nightmare/

1/18/2010

Out of the nearly 3,000 who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, only two families are left to settle out of court.

And as I type, the count may be actually one.

One family who refuses to buy into a Congressional fund or reach an out-of-court deal with airline and security companies who let 19 out of 19 terrorists bring our nation to its knees that day.

Mistakes were made — and are still being made — at airports. These final three families wanted to stress that point in the memory of the loved ones they lost:

Sara Elizabeth Low, 28, was a flight attendant and native of Arkansas who died on American Airlines Flight 11 out of Logan Airport on 9/11.

Mark Bavis, 31, of West Newton was a pro hockey scout for the L.A. Kings who died on United Airlines Flight 175. A flight also out of Logan that day.

Barbara Keating, 72, of Palm Springs, Fla., and a native of Framingham, was also on Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001.

As recently reported, the Keating family has settled and the Low family is close, although they’re not happy about it. After all these years, all these families wanted was a guarantee a public archive would be opened up so the public could study what went horribly wrong that day.

The Low family is especially downtrodden over the prospects of settling this late in the game with the promise of such an archive not completely delivered. Yet, how much pain can a family endure?

It appears the airlines, security companies and the government are fighting against total disclosure. They have a point, to a degree. How much can America share? How exposed are we at airports?

Just follow the news and you’ll have your answer. We’re naked when it comes to terrorists blinded by suicidal fury. Naked and uneducated. A public archive could change that. But will it ever happen?