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Kevin Fenton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-22-05 10:29 AM
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1. Returned effects
"I met with hundreds of victims from the Pentagon. At one of those meetings in a congressman's office, four or five women who lost their husbands came with two or three kids. At one point, one woman took off a wedding band and gave it to me. She said 'this they gave me with his remains.' It was charred and scratched. She said, 'Just hold it and feel what we lost.'"
http://www.govexec.com/features/0903/0903s4.htm

There was an effort to return stuff from the WTC:
http://www.voicesofsept11.org/artman/publish/Personal_Effects/article_00654.php
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