i was sitting one day with my friend in her living room and we had started speaking obama him again now it's like wow my baby. it's going to be 12 years and she was like. whoa was that the city buried him again i'm like honestly i really don't know the only thing that i know is hard i. don't want back to the hospital where i gave birth. and there were like yeah but you have to communicate with the correctional facility. i caught. and does lady that i spoke so she was like you know. that the baby was there. you have to

set down a way for police officers to actually open the gate and lead to when. they actually make you sign papers before you even get on the ferry. and i'm like ok. what can i do is the department of corrections they're going to treat us like if we visiting in jail. but once the captain got close so was an x. to me to everybody notify you on they notify me. and that's when he gave me the news we can't find a child here. i. just broke down great bear my daughter my oldest daughter she broke down crying in. the head yeah hi.

yes matt. let me in. on it this. is a. legend about people that grow up in brooklyn that we're very strong stuff very straight forward. and we're people that have resources my resource as always been my family. as i grew up i went through all that the ratio of discriminatory situations that the world knows of today that happen in

america. i have lurked. busy merely a share in a machine that made. the civil war free the slaves. the no. was my civil war. first place i ever felt whole as i'm a. it's the 1st place in my life that i ever met i'm a. mom opposite of the strew to heart and soul about the i guess. his name was richard. he's gone and been gone since he was 19. his

oath was a machine gun and. he is that boy from aachen soul who taught me of quite black love. and becomes family with men. with will. comradeship we call it. during. my trial of war years ship. my wife was 17 years old and pregnant with my 2nd pregnancy. she gave birth. insane organs unable hospital. and when i

kept back to the united states of america i had no knowledge of how to handle any of this type of a base. so when it was exposed to me that it was twins i didn't even questioning where of the one was when they only showed me one. now that's a pivotal point. because she's never spoken to me about it. that's because about in maturity. i joke with the situation. everyone in the world notes no one wants to bury differently or possibly. who should have to go there.

i think he always wanted to have some kind of relation with kim he didn't want to lose it but he couldn't control himself. he had a he had the devil in him when he was born i guess. and it was hard to fight it. and kim always wanted closure she always wanted she always said to me from i guess 16 all the way until she is now that she said i know i know deep down that i'll always talk to have always be able to tell him my piece of this story. and one day we get a phone call and it's a new york times or kaunas up and this moment nina bernstein and nina said to me do you know you're related to bruce hanson i said yeah that's my ex-husband and she said i have to tell you something. it was really

shocking to me to discover that new york state law a law dating back to the 19th century. required the city to offer the bodies of unclaimed dead to medical schools for deception. i learned that there were 22 cadavers. that were in cold storage at albert einstein medical school. you know basically the these could hours are just lent to the medical schools they are supposed to then be returned to the city for what the city considers proper burial which is a hard island trench. i tried very hard.

to learn the names of these cadavers because i wanted to reclaim their stories. one of the last of the 22 that day was percents and. even though his body had been in cold storage for 3 years it had been on lists sent back and forth between the medical school and the medical examiners office the medical examiners office had not done the 1st thing in terms of trying to find someone who knew bruce hanson and would care and it was easy. their job is to be the last and most important source of information about this person.

they had his name they had his name when he 1st arrived to the morgue they had his name on they put him on a list to offer as a cadaver for deception but medical school. when i had the name and i did the 1st basic search it came up immediately his ex-wife in new jersey. one phone call and i had her one phone call and i was just she was carrying the phone to her daughter. nobody called us i never changed my last name it's still hands and i live in the same state as new jersey nina had no problem calling me up to find out. it should it ended up in there they shouldn't allow that. and for 3 years

being in albert einstein hospital just. you know going through their medical procedures for 3 years put him in a coal box. put in it's awful. it's awful. how it happened and i'm angry with. the medical examiner the hospital. the people you know that still won't give me information on him you know it's my father i should have a right to know how he died i'm never going to find out. the medical examiner is office calling to find out what you know. the hospital not giving giving you a hard time by getting the records everybody is hiding something. so

the hospital's working them with the medical examiner which is working with hearts island you know they obviously don't want people to know most of the mistakes that they made or things that they just don't care about. and think about all those bums on the street. they contacted every single person's family. they throw them probably in the islands. but the pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities. so much we don't attribute we don't have a back seat the whole world needs to be. judged

as comedy prices please listen to. you better we should. everyone is contributing each in our own way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenge is creating the response has been masked so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. is you'll be via reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being led so.

direct. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a mate of the shallows. you. know you have said he is just for a vacation no you have said he has just said come and have fun. in the inner city is now a place sashimi believe in. smoking

. and kitchens i want to bring in today talk a little bit about where we are with the case in the position of arguments to see these making in the final mountain with the city continues and i told them what you and i have talked about before like if you tell us where the b.b. is will drop the lawsuit today that's what this is all about you were trying to find out they don't believe us or think it's about money it's on some search for the truth. one of the issues for the city or katrina is if we hear that they don't know there are other cases like yours that are out there pending and they don't want to make they don't want to make their profit so the further they could question spec and slow us down both the latter these things bad things will happen to the city so they're part of their delay is not an excuse come to trial because there are other cases that are going to follow shortly behind. and

. that really is the one much because all they think is about the money they're honestly like. i'm not doing this for money i want my son back that's. what we know right now from from the record so we have to say that autopsy was performed the body at some point was at the morgue. we do have some indication on one of the records that the body was released for transport at this point we don't know if it was transport to some type of medical facility for research we don't know where that baby was released to we know where the baby was supposed to be released to now start island. any there with the city of new york it's always going to take me years. getting records

out of city new york requires motion after motion after motion for a judge to compel them to respond more concern to security issues and welfare issues and housing issues and all the things that make the city a unique in crazy place. it's almost like. no matter how much will. never happen i can never guarantee you that i'm going to give you the answer that question and i know that's the most important thing to see and that's been the focus of my case it's always been about getting those answers. i guess we'll find in the end. i need answers. why did this come to hot she joined the union. to change for one crime. to be free equal measure. period.

and i feel very emotional about it because. not only of the soldiers interred here . but so is my daughter. i named her a ship. we call and i was selves with many questions. about our daughter. so we hope to bring closure to our family and to bring on a love and respect to a so. that we haven't had the opportunity. on a properly for almost 50 years to this day.

to not to have touched the earth. that she's buried in it bill who's me to go over there to lay the 1st wreath at her gravesite. and fame our respects to my daughter who is buried on auburn and i just feel of the city of new york and. then i can change my plight. to brain on a. respect. and some type of fitting memorial statue. over the one hog island. for these soldiers of the civil war.

to have a city this modern this cosmopolitan that still buries the unclaimed dead the way jacob reese recorded in the 19th century. it just doesn't make sense. it's archaic it's bizarre and yet it also represents a truth about america about the western world perhaps. that this tremendous inequality not only still exists but has has widened.

new york still has the door is still a name to conjure with it still sounds a musical note to people in some distant part of the war. new york is distinct new york has always gone its own way. new york has its own bitter humor. its own kind of culture or its own kind of literacy. new york is not sentimental because the city those not care the city is mark there are about you. that is one of the attractions of new york city forces and this monster you have to fight. you have to actually wrestle with the

city in order to just. get the very basic necessities of life. and so the idea of the city having something on its conscience this is rather small block frankly. i mean. with all on earth of the dead they are. i think that the city has always wanted to forget about what island city has wanted to forget about the people who are buried there it's wanted to forget about the fact that there is a potter's field that there is a place where difficult stories are hidden.

new york city is celebrated as the place where anyone can achieve their dreams of but those dreams have them in achieved by everyone. it's true of people toiling away digging out the titles for subways we're building our skyscrapers. it's true of people of wound up homeless or because a society shunned them as happened during the aids epidemic. those stories might not be flattering to tell even more that might tell us things about our present that would run at face. we all want to the people who have been buried there and are being buried there to bring their stories to light. so.

my bill to me the jurisdiction of court i mean i believe that we're at a place where we can finally the momentum is growing to make hard out on a public place that is not forgotten. 1000000 new yorkers who built this city made this city the city that it is today they should not be forgotten they need a better space to be resting. the

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would've then told me that i'm going to spend my life to plan committees are out of disco of course i would have sold it was clearly seen. every night although we were attacked by the arabs or we were attacking them and we were extremely shocked and saying that's not possible all me does not do such scenes and then the soldiers send myself from the work of the sneak into. the house with all the prison or revolver god with over will they all. believe much 2nd class citizens in the on call. it was like a lightning in my head that there is no way to be able to live together without tearing down the street how lovely. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by the curse of those with.

no dares thinks. we dare to ask. a new gold rush is underway and gonna thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields hoping to strike it rich years ago. as they oh by those that were children are torn between gold. my family was very poor i thought i was doing my best to get back to school which side will have the strongest appeal.

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