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Article: A trail of tears on the day hope died; Paul Harris reports from New York, where relatives of the World Trade Centre victims yesterday began to apply for death certificates.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2001
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Byline: PAUL HARRIS
THEY arrived at the emergency centre in little trickles of sadness - gaunt-faced families clutching documents, some carrying photographs of people they loved.
Inside, they would hand over the papers and ask for a death certificate.
Until yesterday, most of them had refused to accept that their relatives were never coming back.
But this was the day hope died.
For more than two weeks they had prayed that their relatives might have survived in the rubble of the World Trade Centre. Now they were being asked to prove that they were dead. They had no bodies to cry over, not even a trace.
No time even ...