OCSteve:
Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill should be tied to a chair and forced to listen to these tapes over and over again.

100 times sounds about right.
3.31.2006 5:22pm
jlb (www):
And he should have to listen to it without the victim's voices redacted too...

(What the f*ck is up with that anyway? I should be able to listen to them if I damn well please. I'm sick and tired of people with "authority" that I don't accord them trying to be my nanny.)
3.31.2006 7:28pm
Dean Esmay:
They probably need the families' permission, Jan. I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to make those phone calls.
3.31.2006 11:29pm
jlb (www):
Hmm, hadn't thought of that. I wouldn't want to make those calls either.
3.31.2006 11:52pm
Rhianna (aka rmschoon) (mail) (www):
Um, Ron the cops and firemen weren't heros. They've said it time and again themselves. They did their job, they died - so damn many of them DIED - to protect and serve the innocents that day. True I consider them HEROS along with every man and woman to wear the uniform of the US military, but they all shrug off the honor. Duty calls them, not a desire to be a 'hero' on the news but to be a HERO when needed - while the cameras are off and the live feeds silent.

I don't know about making those calls, but I think the American people could do with a dose of just what the F*CK was going on that day. Let them hear the pleads, the screams, the "I LOVE ...". Remind them just who is the 'eichmann' and who was the 'jew' that day.
4.1.2006 12:50am
Ronald Coleman (mail) (www):
Rhianna, true heroes do indeed reject the description...
4.1.2006 8:39pm
B. Durbin (www):
They do need the families' permission, and so far twenty-some families have given permission for the voices to be heard. Apparently, they only positively identified a little over one hundred of the victims, so you won't hear the other voices because they don't know who to ask.

The local radio news played a bit of one call where the person was identified (and permission was given.) This particular one was probably chosen because the caller was calm and informative. They also had a clip of his father, who said that listening to the tape was hard but he feels his son 'distinguished himself in a difficult situation.'
4.2.2006 3:27pm