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Mass Grave, Hundreds Of Thousands Dead, On Island Off Manhattan (Video)
Hart Island can be found on Google Maps, which labels the northern half of the island “Potter’s Field,” a term commonly used to refer to a place where unknown or unclaimed bodies are buried. The location is no longer accurate, and the name never was. When the city bought Hart Island for $75,000 in 1868, the new potter’s field was set on 45 acres at the island’s northern tip. Administration was handed over to what was then called the Department of Charities and Correction, which operated a prison and a technical school for delinquent boys on the island. Inmates were given the job of burying the dead, a practice that continues to this day. The Department of Correction estimates that more than 850,000 people are now buried on Hart Island, noting that the actual number may be somewhere between 750,000 and a million, a standard deviation that is jarring when you think about it.
This isnt your typical mass grave in the sense that your uncovering war crimes or something like that but it is a mass grave none the less full of people who the world will never know, what their names were, the poor, the sick, society’s unwanted children and buried all in one big grave. It’s nearly as bad as what you would have found in Bosnia in the 1990′s in that this is what the powers that be think of people. Your nothing, your a body. If you are the system’s trash you get taken out like the trash. They do not value life at all. -Mort
http://WWW.NEVEROPENEDEYES.COM First paragraphs of site highlight this stark sober reality