By: Hugh B. Price
President
National Urban League
Two poignant ceremonies were held within the last week at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan-where the World Trade Center towers once stood-to mark the end of the excavation of the blasted site and the search for the remains of the thousands who perished there that bright blue-skied morning.
On May 30 New York's political officialdom and thousands of others gathered in silent tribute as the men and women who had worked at the site since that awful day uprooted the last standing girder and marched out of the seven-story-deep pit. Last Sunday the families of those who died, most of whose bodies have yet to be identified by medical officials, held their own ceremony at the site.
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