WTC: Deutsche Bank Tower & Memorial Park

[Mark Gobell]

Did anyone know that "pieces of plane" remain in the former Deutsche Bank Tower and that human remains are still kept in Memorial Park ?

From today's Independent on Sunday:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1311190.ece


But to fully grasp why closure still has not come five years later you need only to look at the black-draped building and to the tent. The first is the former Deutsche Bank tower, a 43-storey tower right next to Ground Zero that is awaiting demolition. It is still standing because of what is inside - pieces of plane and, distressingly, of human bodies. This year, workers dressed in hazard suits and respirators have recovered no fewer than 750 individual remains of victims of the attack, hurled into the bank by the impact of the planes. It is to the tent, uptown on 30th Street and First Avenue, that this new evidence of atrocity is taken.

Called Memorial Park, the tent protects three climate-controlled lorry containers, inside which are stored 13,790 remains of the twin tower victims. They are there awaiting new DNA technology that may one day allow scientists definitively to match each of them to the names of victims who died. That may be a long time, and before then they will be transferred to the Memorial at Ground Zero itself when it is finally built. These remains are testament to perhaps the saddest and most frustrating piece of unfinished 9/11 business. So far, medical examiners have identified only 1,598 victims, leaving 1,151 people still to be accounted for at Ground Zero. And that has left 1,151 families with no remains to honour and bury.