Lucy Sullivan
speaker
311 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Lucy Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then there's this fact of the fines.
What what are the fines?
The Finds F-I-N-E-S.
Unidentified dirt and dust.
The last stuff to be left at Fresh Kills.
Not garbage, not debris, but nothing to be salvaged, at least from the city's point of view.
Of course, not everyone saw it that way.
When I went to visit the Hornings in New Jersey, the first thing I noticed was a bumper sticker on their car out front.
I had Diane read me what it said.
Before Matthew was killed, Diane said she was not an organizer, not especially political.
But in the face of insurmountable grief over losing her son in a terrorist attack.
She decided to fight the only people she really could.
The City of New York.
The Hornings had one demand do not leave the remains of our son in the Fresh Kills garbage dump.
From their kitchen table, the Hornings started a group called WTC families for a proper burial, with others who had lost loved ones.
They were fighting to have the fines, that big pile of dust left over from the sorting operation, moved out of the landfill and into a more dignified place.
The group met every month at the Union Library in New Jersey.
They attended public planning meetings and protested at others.
On may thirtieth, two thousand two, a ceremony was held at Ground Zero, marking the end of their recovery effort there.
But then a couple years later, during a construction project, additional human remains were found.
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