As the public fixed its gaze on Ground Zero in the weeks and months after 9/11, workers transported 1.4 million tons of debris to Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, where a 1,000 people worked in shifts around the clock until July, 2002 to sort through it, trying to find any identifiable human remains or pieces of personal property that might provide closure or offer some small measure of comfort to the bereaved.
The devastation was so total that identifiable objects were few and far between, but a few categories of item popped up repeatedly: Credit cards, laminated badges and, oddly, golf balls.
Families of victims toured the landfill to see all that was being done to identify their loved one.
The Fresh Kills team would ultimately identify 4,500 human remains and 73,000 personal effects.
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The devastation was so total that identifiable objects were few and far between, but a few categories of item popped up repeatedly: Credit cards, laminated badges and, oddly, golf balls.
Families of victims toured the landfill to see all that was being done to identify their loved one.
The Fresh Kills team would ultimately identify 4,500 human remains and 73,000 personal effects.
nationalreview.com/news/no-stone-…
www.nationalreview.com No Stone Unturned: Searching for Answers in the Wreckage of 9/11 | National Review Thousands of workers transported 1.4 million tons of debris to a landfill and sorted through every bit of it, desperate to offer families closure. 
