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The last beam

Posted at 3:44 PM on August 24, 2009 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)
Filed under: Disasters

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The last beam removed from the wreckage of the World Trade Center was the first artifact installed today as part of a Sept. 11 museum on the west side of the site.

Click on the image below to read some of the graffiti written by recovery workers in pit of the site. The graffiti stays.

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Find the online version of the museum here.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)


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