Obama's 9/11 Families Ground Zero Invitations Are as Cold as Osama Bin Laden's Dead Body

The White House was in such a hurry to promote Barack Obama's reelection, note how the White House sent the invitations to 9/11 family members. "Dear 9/11 family." Ouch!

Here's the details:

Jan and John Vigiano received the email invite Tuesday and admitted that they nearly deleted it, thinking it was spam. The private invitation complete with the White House seal informed the couple about President Obama's visit to the World Trade Center site just days after news broke about Osama bin Laden's death.

What rubbed the Vigiano's the wrong way was not what the email said, but how it was addressed.

"It says 'Dear 9-11 family member,' - no names" " John Vigiano said, reading the invite aloud to PIX 11 cameras. "I don't know if its disrespectful, but it doesn't work for me."

Vigiano decided not to go to the 9/11 Ground Zero festivities over Osama Bin Laden's death and have challenged Barack Obama to prove to the American people Osama is truly dead.


The Vigianos lost both their sons on September 11, 2001. John Vigiano Jr. was 36, and a FDNY firefighter, while their youngest Joe Vigiano was an emergency services detective with the NYPD.

"There is no closure," a sobbing John Vigiano said. "There is none."

The Vigiano family is just one of fifty families sent the exclusive invitation to meet the President at what is being billed as a historic visit to Ground Zero Thursday. With all that considered, the mourning father says he's not going.

"I'm honored the President of the United States is coming to New York," he said. "[But] to me its just going to be a photo op..."