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I am watching the Discovery channel and the program is about the personal effects found at the WTC site. It is very moving.

FOUND beneath tens-of-thousands of tonnes of rubble and twisted steel, this soiled and crumpled flag is a solemn reminder that September 11, 2001, was more than an American tragedy. Now, almost three years since 2749 people perished in New York, the Australian flag is going home to be preserved and mounted by the Federal Government. The Government intends to consult relatives of the 11 Australians killed by terrorists on September 11 on how best to display the flag. Ten Australians died in New York and one in Washington DC. The flag, measuring about 1m x 1.5m, was excavated from the...

There are no planes behind the mammoth locked doors of Hangar 17 at Kennedy International Airport. Instead, it hides history. This is where a 100-foot-tall by 100-foot-wide section of the lower facade of the north tower — the infamous Gothic arches — is kept, disassembled into 25 pieces weighing 80,000 pounds apiece. Laid out on the floor are the crumpled remains of the north tower antenna. Parked in one corner is an assortment of crushed fire trucks. Here rests the last column removed from ground zero, complete with the graffiti from firefighters and ironworkers who recovered victims and cleaned the...

(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) For hour after hour, day after day, month after month, they kept at it. From the original mountains of debris down to the last quarter-inch, workers at the Fresh Kills landfill sifted through 1.8 tons from the decimated World Trade Center over the course of 10 months, looking to recover whatever they could. Some of what they found, from car parts to building remnants, makes up an exhibit chronicling the massive effort. "Recovery: The World Trade Center Recovery Operation at Fresh Kills" opened at the New-York Historical Society on Tuesday and runs through March 21. The...

T hree old friends gathered in the days before Thanksgiving amid a roomful of scattered artifacts, once-mundane objects that have been transformed by trauma. These are relics of the World Trade Center attack; they will be displayed in a new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society that opens today. Advertisement Mark down the friends' names: Dennis Diggins, James Luongo and Richard B. Marx. They are the wise men of the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, and they helped save history. "They are responsible for virtually all of the things that any museum has, in terms of objects from the...