Extraordinary pictures of 9/11 relics revealed as they are shipped across world for tenth anniversary memorials

Draped in American flags and handled with reverence, these are the relics pulled from the rubble of the World Trade Center.
They have been stored in Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy Airport since the recovery operation was completed, and are now being shipped across the world for towns and cities to construct memorials in time for the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
Firefighters from across the U.S. are making a pilgrimage to New York to collect the relics, which were today revealed in a set of extraordinary images.

The photographs of twisted heavy steel, tattered uniforms and even a smashed-up fire truck reveal with terrible poignancy the full devastation of the terrorist attacks.
Organised by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the World Trade Center steel program aims to distribute the relics to firehouses and museums across America.
Some will go even further afield, with tags showing they are destined for memorials as far away as the UK and China.
Bill Baroni, the Port Authority's deputy executive director, told the Boston Herald: 'This is a sacred mission for this agency - to not only rebuild the World Trade Center site, but also make sure that at memorials to 9/11 all across the country, people would be able to, whether in Bergen County, New Jersey, or St. Louis, Missouri ... see what happened that day.

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