File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0111, message 321


From: "Salil Tripathi" <salil61-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: The Hierarchy of Death
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 07:26:41 +0000


rebecca,

Yes, Australian firefighters did go to the US, but I don't believe any of 
them died in the debris. It takes about 20 hours to fly to the US from 
Australia. The fires started at 9 am US time (EST). That's around 10 pm 
tomidnight, Australian time, depending on the time zone. The fire fighters 
could not have flown to NY for another four days, as the US airspace was 
closed for 3-4 days. So the Australian firefighters could not have made it 
to the US till Sept 15 or 16. Nobody, I believe, died due to the attacks 
after that. Australian firefighters who went showed the same humanity which 
many aid workers show when they rush to a disaster site; and they deserve 
unreserved admiration. But I don't know what's the point of questioning the 
US when it chooses to spend its own aid- and tax-dollars to identify the 
dead on its soil, an overwhelmingly large number of whom were Americans. It 
would indeed be cussed if they find non-American body parts and leave them 
there -- nobody says they've done that. The original piece seemed like 
another example of finding a tool to knock the US -- they're callous if they 
let the bodies buried; they are callous to others' plight, if they dig out 
all bodies for the relatives.....

Salil



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