Mourning families feels incomplete without remains

One family planted flowers in a cemetery where their loved one’s remains will never be interred.

One family planted flowers in a cemetery where their loved one’s remains will never be interred.

Some mourners, knowing they will never get a body, ask for a memento of ash or rubble from the wreckage of the World Trade Centre. Others display photos at memorial services instead of caskets.

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