9/11 remains return to ground zero amid protest

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Al Santora, center, father of firefighter Christopher Santora, a victim of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and other victims' family members protest the decision by city officials to keep unidentified human remains of the victims at the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 10, 2014, in New York City.
Al Santora, center, father of firefighter Christopher Santora, a victim of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and other victims' family members protest the decision by city officials to keep unidentified human remains of the victims at the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 10, 2014, in New York City.

The unidentified remains of those killed at the World Trade Center have returned to the World Trade Center site in a solemn procession on a foggy Saturday morning.

The remains were moved from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Manhattan’s East Side at dawn, accompanied by a police motorcade and several police and fire department vehicles with lights flashing but no sirens.

Few people gathered for the five-mile procession. Construction workers near the World Trade Center paused and took notice, and about 10 firefighters stood in the cool breeze saluting the vehicles as they arrived.

The remains will be transferred to an underground repository in the same building as the National September 11 Memorial Museum.

Like many decisions involving the site of the nation’s worst terrorist attack, the disposition of the unidentified remains has been contentious.

A group of victims’ family members who say the remains should be stored in an above-ground monument separate from the museum protested the procession. About a dozen wore black bands over their mouths at the site Saturday. They say they took the bands off as the remains were transferred.

Rosemary Cain, who lost her firefighter son at the trade center, was one of the protesters.

“I don’t know how much of him is down here; if it’s one little inch, I want it treated respectfully,” she said. “I want it above ground. I don’t want it to be part of a museum. I don’t want it to be part of a freak show.”….

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