4 More 9/11 Victim's Remains Found

There is a story at Yahoo News concerning the lingering aftermath of 9/11 as more victims remains are identified:

The city has identified the remains of four more victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, including one man whose DNA was found beneath a service road that was initially paved over, officials said Monday.

Ronald Keith Milstein's remains were found beneath the road that was built to carry cleanup and construction trucks in and out of the World Trade Center site after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the city medical examiner's office said. Milstein of Queens was 54 when he was killed.

More than 400 human bone pieces have been recovered from beneath the road, which has become known as "Haul Road" because of the hauling of debris.

Also identified was Alejandro Castano whose remains were found in the Liberty Street area, the medical examiner's office said.
The 35-year-old from Englewood, N.J., was in the area that day to deliver pens and paper to a brokerage firm on the 97th floor of the south tower, his family told The Record of Hackensack, N.J.

For now, authorities are not releasing the names of the two other victims whose remains were identified. Their families will decide whether to publicly announce the names of the 52-year-old woman identified from remains found in the former Deutsche Bank building and the 59-year-old man identified from remains discovered on Liberty Street.

The search at Haul Road began in October 2006 when utility workers found over 80 bones in a manhole in the service road. Since then, other manholes, a highway and nearby rooftops have been searched. The city identified the first victim from remains found in the road last July.
More than 1,800 of the 21,000 body parts recovered from ground zero have been found in the last two years in and around the trade center site. The remains of more than 40 percent of the 2,749 people killed at the site have yet to be identified.

The city has been using updated technology to try and re-extract DNA to make new identifications.
Sadly, Condolences to the victims friends and families, are all that we can give them now!

Honoring 9/11 Victims

The "cool" person of the week segment will return next week as we honor the memories of the victim's and heroes of 9/11.

If actions speak louder than elegy, it tells you where we are that the team coverage on the eve of the 6th anniversary of 9/11 alternated between General Petraeus' performance on Capitol Hill and Britney Spears' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Osama returned to prime time, only to be mocked for his "impotence" and apparent need for Grecian Formula. A New Jersey community that lost 100 people that day has had to delay expansion of its memorial because fundraising fell short. September 11 falls once again on a Tuesday, we are six years away from the fire, and wondering what that means.

There is much being made of a USA Today poll that shows that many people are forgetting about 9/11 and its aftermath. I think that is not the case, but the truth is we as humans, do move on after tragedies. I have lost all of my grandparents, and my parents, and as each of them died I thought I would too, but it didn't happen, and I moved on. I do not dwell on their deaths everyday, but they are in my thoughts on occasion, and I feel sad for a while, and then it is back to the present. I feel great grief for these families as their dear ones died without notice and in such a horrendous way, that I am sure it makes coping that much harder.

Perhaps some people will forget, but there are many of us who will live our lives, with their memories quietly in the background of our own lives, and we shall live for them, so they can be assured we remember them. God Bless and Rest In Peace!!


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