There is a basic difference between the search for JFK's body and the search for the young lady's body. The ocean is not damaged at all by the JFK search. Altering stream flows or doing whatever is necessary to find the young lady's body could cause serious damage to a Wild River. I am sure that no kayakers would object to looking for the young lady if it was just a matter of getting more people out to look for her. "Shawn W. Baker" wrote: > Scott wrote: > >I think it's interesting that while we debate how far we are willing to go to recover the body of the unfortunate fifteen year old girl who drown on the Chattoga, our government is willing to spare no expense to recover the body of JFK Jr. > > Oh boy, you know, the exact same thoughts crossed my mind yesterday. > While the young lady who drowned was no less a citizen of the United > States than John Kennedy, her body retrieval became a debatable issue > while the retrieval of Jr. was totally a non-issue. Of course fewer > environmental issues were directly involved with the plane crash, but > there was still a lot of diesel and helicopter fuel expended in the > search and later retrieval. > > One thing that really bothers me--and I'm wrestling with myself whether > I'm right to be bothered or wrong--is that there was a great deal of > resources expended on a search, that by the 2nd or 3rd day, was for 3 > bodies. Would our government, or you as taxpayers, pay for a Naval > destroyer to transport my family to give my ashes to the ocean? I am > not trying to make light of this tragedy, but had this happened to any > of us, it would be no less tragic for our families, yet they would be > "on their own" in dealing with this. With his life directly "in the > public eye", did we, as a nation owe it to him more than the average > citizen? > > I read on rec.boats.paddle yesterday that divers entered the hole on the > Chattooga where Rachel was presumably at, and her body had flushed > downriver. I hope she can be easily found, so that her father can bury > her, if that's what he needs to do. > > 0 > ____©/______ > ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ > 0 > Shawn Baker http://www.missoulaconcrete.com/shawn/ > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jul 24 1999 - 13:20:28 PDT
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