Article: Staten Island site may become national cemetery for victims

FROM the top of the Fresh Kills rubbish dump it was once possible to see clear across the bay to the two towers of the World Trade Center.

Now the towers are coming closer, carried as piles of rubble, one lorry load at a time.

Mixed with the shattered concrete and shards of plate glass is a coarse grey dust. It is everything from aircraft seats to papers and office equipment, but also almost certainly all that remains of 5,000 human beings.

Once the biggest rubbish dump in the world, Fresh Kills has been turned into a gigantic forensic laboratory as dozens of police and

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