Shouldn't there be some kind of commemoration for the victims of the 2001 anthrax terrorist attacks?

[NNN0LHI]

Which occurred after 9/11/01? It is almost like that incident has been written right out of our history, doesn't it? And memory banks too. I bet a lot of people have completely forgotten about this.

Wonder why we don't? No singing, no presidents, no nothing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. According to the FBI, the ensuing investigation became "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement."

The attacks followed a week after the September 11 terror attacks which had caused the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City, damage to The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and the crash of an airliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The anthrax attacks came in two waves. The first set of anthrax letters had a Trenton, New Jersey postmark dated September 18, 2001. Five letters are believed to have been mailed at this time to: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and the New York Post, all located in New York City and to the National Enquirer at American Media, Inc. (AMI) in Boca Raton, Florida. Robert Stevens, the first person who died from the mailings, worked at a tabloid called Sun, also published by AMI, died on October 6, 2001, four days after entering a Florida hospital with an undiagnosed illness that caused him to vomit and be short of breath. Only the New York Post and NBC News letters were found; the existence of the other three letters is inferred because individuals at ABC, CBS and AMI became infected with anthrax. Scientists examining the anthrax from the New York Post letter said it appeared as a coarse brown granular material looking like Purina Dog Chow.

At least 22 people developed anthrax infections, with 11 of the especially life-threatening inhalational variety. Five died of inhalational anthrax: Stevens; two employees of the Brentwood mail facility in Washington, D.C., Thomas Morris Jr. and Joseph Curseen; and two whose source of exposure to the bacteria is still unknown: Kathy Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant resident in the borough of the Bronx who worked in New York City, and Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year old widow of a prominent judge from Oxford, Connecticut, who was the last known victim.

White House precautions

On September 11, the president and White House staff began taking a regimen of Cipro, a powerful antibiotic. The public interest group Judicial Watch filed lawsuits in June 2002 against federal agencies to obtain information about how, what and when the White House knew on 9/11 about the danger of anthrax weeks before the first known victim of the anthrax attacks. The issue, therefore, is on what grounds governmental officials were alerted to prepare for the coming anthrax attacks, which were later traced to a U.S. army medical research institute.

[Fumesucker]

1. The last phrase in your post is the reason for no commemoration.

"which were later traced to a U.S. army medical research institute."

:shrug:

[NNN0LHI]

2. Yep, can't pin this one on a bunch of Mooslums

Ain't no money to be made on that.

Don

[Greybnk48]

3. Collateral damage. I think that's what Pres. Cheney, *,

Rumsfeldt, Ashcroft and Rice would call it.

[FSogol]

4. The Brentwood Postal Facility was renamed The Curseen Morris Postal Facility.

:shrug:

[Coyote_Bandit]

5. There are lots of folks

who lived good lives and died tragically. We've forgotten more than we've ever remembered.

We should recognize that sometimes memoralizing victims is little more than exploitation of their memory.

[ensho]

6. maybe because many of them had the wrong color skin

?

[cali]

7. Maybe because only 5 people died

not everything is about racism.

[BeFree]

8. Timing?

Just weeks after 9/11, with people very scared, the Anthrax scare put a lid on any 9/11 investigation.

Congress was shut down for weeks, and critters offices were left unoccupied as 'workers' went through the offices 'cleaning' up what ever could be found. Computers were left unattended, office files unprotected.

Patriot Act soon became law.

It would be years before an investigation into 9/11 was ever really begun outside the Senate report, which findings were largely redacted.

[NNN0LHI]

9. And our "free press", never became curious enough to find out how the White House knew to prepare...

... for a terror attack that originated from a U.S. army medical research institute weeks in advance.

That is unbelievable.

Don

[BeFree]

10. They were scared?

Afraid of getting Anthrax in their mail? I can see that as a sound fear.

"Be careful what you say and who you say it to.." That saying came straight from the WH!