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Last Steel Beam Returned to Ground Zero

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August 24, 2009 — NECN/ABC: New York City reports:

A makeshift memorial to the victims of the September 11th attacks is back at ground zero. The massive steel column was delivered before dawn to the site of the World Trade Center towers. The beam was the final standing steel column removed the site, and has spent the last seven years stored in a hangar at JFK Airport. It will now become part of the planned national September 11th memorial and museum.

Last WTC steel column returns

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Heartfelt thanks; visiting 9/11 family members meet and thank troops at Gitmo guarding detainees

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Heartfelt Thanks
Story by Army Staff Sgt. Emily J. Russell
JTF Guantanamo Public Affairs

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (July 20, 2009) — For some service members, serving at Joint Task Force Guantanamo is one more chapter in the book they call life. For others, the significance of the mission holds a deeper meaning — more personal — especially for service members who have lost friends, loved ones or know someone affected by the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

For the Soldiers of the 189th Military Police Co., the mission became more personal when family members of September 11 attack victims, visiting Guantanamo during the recent military commissions proceedings, made a special effort to say “thank you,” and convey gratitude, face to face, for a job well done.