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Saturday, September 29, 2007

NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM OPENS TRIBUTE EXHIBITION IN CINCINNATI, OHIO
9/11 Family Member, Local First Responders, and Four Ohio Teenagers Who Walked 650 Miles to Raise Money for Memorial to Sign Steel Beam

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum today will open a tribute exhibition that is touring nationally, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The traveling exhibition, which honors the nearly 3,000 men and women who lost their lives on September 11, is intended to raise funds and awareness in support of building the National Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero. In a ceremony at the Cincinnati Firefighters Memorial later this morning, a victim’s family member, local first responders, and four Ohio teenagers who walked 650 miles to raise money for the Memorial, will be among those signing a steel beam that will be used in the construction of the Memorial & Museum.

The exhibition tells the story of September 11 through photographs, artifacts and a short film from the point of view of families, responders, survivors, volunteers and everyday people who came together in the aftermath of the attacks. People from across the country are invited to come together again to pay tribute to the victims and to sign a steel beam that will be used in the construction of the Memorial & Museum.

“In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, our nation came together in a show of extraordinary unity,” said New York City Mayor and National September 11 Memorial & Museum Chairman Michael R. Bloomberg. “Building the National Memorial & Museum is an opportunity for people to come together again to create a lasting legacy for future generations. This tour will allow people across the country to take part in the creation of a new monument that signifies our response to the attacks and offers hope for the future.”

“Through this national tour we will involve as many Americans as possible in the building of the Memorial & Museum. September 11, 2001, was a defining event in this country’s history, and we are creating a national symbol that, like the Statue of Liberty, will tell us something about who we are as Americans,” said Joe Daniels, President and CEO, National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

The exhibition’s opening ceremonies are expected to include remarks from Cincinnati City Manager Milton Dohoney, Jr.; Ohio Congressman Steve Chabot; Cincinnati Firefighter Union Local 48 President Marc Monahan; Memorial & Museum President and CEO Joe Daniels; and Memorial & Museum Board Member Thomas Rogér, who lost his daughter Jean Rogér, a flight attendant on Flight 11.

Pastor Mark Green will help begin the event with an invocation and both Cincinnati Fire Chief Robert Wright and Police Chief Col. Thomas Streicher will offer prayers. Boy Scout troop 502 will lead the Pledge of Allegiance and Cincinnati Firefighter John Winfrey will sing God Bless America.

Four teenagers from Rossford, Ohio will also join the ceremony. To commemorate the 5th anniversary of 9/11, Chad Coulter, Dustin Dean, Tad Millinger, and Brandon Reinhard walked 650 miles raising a total of $14,000 to help build the National September 11 Memorial and $3,500 for the Flight 93 Memorial. They began their walk on July 22, 2006 in Rossford, OH passing through Shanksville, PA on their way to the World Trade Center site in New York City. To acknowledge their dedication, the boys will be presented with a certificate dedicating a cobblestone on the Memorial Plaza in their honor.

Coulter, Dean, Millinger, and Reinhard will join Memorial President Joe Daniels in presenting a flag that was flown over Ground Zero to the City of Cincinnati and its first responders. Cincinnati Fire Department and Ohio Task Force One Lieutenants Grant Light and Mike Cayse will accept the flag and lead a moment of silence.

After the ceremony, participants will be invited to sign a steel beam that will be used in the construction of the Memorial & Museum. The event will conclude with a tour of the exhibition, which includes a detailed timeline of the events of September 11, photographs, artifacts and a short film.

“We are honored to have this moving tribute in Cincinnati,” said Ed Dadosky, Cincinnati Fire Department, District Fire Chief. “September 11 was a shared tragedy; a day that touched every American, no matter where we were or what we were doing. I encourage all residents to visit the tribute exhibition, sign the beam and make a donation. Let’s continue to do whatever we can do to build our National Memorial.”

The steel beam used in the exhibition, manufactured by South Carolina-based Owen Steel Company, is part of the structural steel for the Memorial & Museum. In May 2007, the Memorial & Museum selected Owen Steel to supply, fabricate and erect the steel for the project. The beam is approximately 37 feet in length, and weighs about four tons.

The exhibition will be open today from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with opening ceremonies beginning at 10:00 a.m and Sunday, September 30 from 10:00 a.m to 6:00 p.m. Following Cincinnati, the exhibition will travel to Lexington, KY. For more information on the tour and additional tour stops, visit the Memorial & Museum’s website, http://www.national911memorial.org/. As details and locations are confirmed, tour information will be posted on the website.

The tour was launched in Columbia, South Carolina on September 10 and has already garnered the interest and support of thousands of visitors, yielding nearly $1 million in contributions since the announcement of the tour schedule in August. Because of the widespread public interest in the tour, ten additional cities were added, extending the tour’s reach to 25 states by the end of the year.

On September 23, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Memorial & Museum has raised more than $325 million towards its private fundraising goal of $350 million from donors in all 50 states and 30 foreign countries. This figure includes funds to support capital and planning costs, as well as an initial endowment to support operations once the Memorial & Museum opens. In less than one year, nearly $190 million of funds was raised.

Construction of the Memorial began in March 2006, with preliminary work to cover the original box beam columns that outline the perimeters of the Twin Towers. In August 2006, heavy construction work began to build the footings that will hold up the Memorial, Museum, and Plaza. At the end of this year, steel is expected to begin to rise at the site.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is the not-for-profit corporation created to realize the Memorial quadrant at the World Trade Center site. The organization is responsible for raising the funds and overseeing the design for the project and will program and operate the Memorial & Museum located on 8 of the 16 acres of the site.

The Memorial will remember and honor the thousands of people who died in the horrific attacks of February 26, 1993, and September 11, 2001. The design, created by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, consists of two pools that reside in the footprints of the original Twin Towers, surrounded by a plaza of oak trees. The Arad/Walker design was selected from a design competition that included more than 5,000 entrants from 63 nations.

The Museum will display monumental artifacts associated with the events of September 11, while presenting intimate stories of loss, compassion, reckoning and recovery that are central to telling the story of September 11 and its aftermath. It will communicate key messages that embrace both the specificity and the universal implications of the events of 9/11; document the impact of those events on individual lives, as well as on local, national, and international communities; and explore the continuing significance of these events for our global community.

Donations can be made through and more information can be found at the Memorial & Museum’s website, http://www.national911memorial.org/, or by calling 1-877-WTC-GIVE.

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9/11 ’survivor’ found to be fake

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On Friday, September 28, 2007, two (2) potential human remains* were recovered from the World Financial Center.Total Remains

1719

785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
409- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
266 - Liberty Street
3 - West Street
14 - Rooftop 130 Cedar
13 - DEP Subterranean Structure under the Haul Road
12 - Subterranean outside WTC site
8- World Financial Center

NEW SEARCH

Remains recovered 1719

Remains sent for testing 0

DNA extracted 0

Matches 0

WTC Items Recovered 0

ORIGINAL SEARCH

Remains Recovered Over 20,000

Remains sent for testing NA

DNA extracted NA

Matches 1598

Remains tested with new process NA

DNA Extracted NA

Matches 11

WTC Items Recovered NA

(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)

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On Thursday, September 27, 2007, two (2) potential human remains* were recovered from the World Financial Center.

9/26 No Recoveries

Total Remains

1717

785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
409- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
266 - Liberty Street
3 - West Street
14 - Rooftop 130 Cedar
13 - DEP Subterranean Structure under the Haul Road
12 - Subterranean outside WTC site
6 - World Financial Center

NEW SEARCH

Remains recovered 1717

Remains sent for testing 0

DNA extracted 0

Matches 0

WTC Items Recovered 0

ORIGINAL SEARCH

Remains Recovered Over 20,000

Remains sent for testing NA

DNA extracted NA

Matches 1598

Remains tested with new process NA

DNA Extracted NA

Matches 11

WTC Items Recovered NA

(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)

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Contact: Bill Minson
917.826.7255/310.403.0400

PENTAGON, FLIGHT #93 FAMILIES JOIN NY “WE REMEMBER WALK”

PRAYERS OFFERED FOR GEORGE MARTIN’S ASSIST TO 911 WORKERS

September 27, 2007, Washington, DC—This Saturday, September 29, families’ survivors and ground zero workers will gather at the WTC Sphere in Battery Park at 1:00pm for the 6 th Annual WE REMEMBER WALK honoring and showing the faces of those lost on September 11, 2001, the WALK begins at 2pm. Pentagon and Flight #93 family members are expected to walk with NY families in attendance.

*A special remembrance will also be offered for Gerard Baptiste Sr. and Paddy Tallon, two FDNY Dads who lost their sons, Gerard Baptiste and Sean Tallon on September 11, 2001. These were two of the 343 FDNY family who perished that day. *

Rev. Bill Minson, producer of the WALK comments, ” a couple of weeks ago during our WE REMEMBER WALK for Pentagon family members we gathered in prayer at Arlington cemetery in the area where those who perished on 9/11 are laid to rest. The next day we walked with Firefighters, law enforcement and military in Los Angeles at our WE REMEMBER WALK to the 9/11 Memorial in front of Fire station #88, Urban Search & Rescue (Please see www. 911socal.com). Then we gathered with 9/11 family members and others at Ground Zero on September 11 to remind families, survivors and workers that we are still praying for their healing”.

“While attending the 12th observance of the Oklahoma City bombing in April, seeing the faces of those still healing confirms we have a way to go and everyday I thank GOD for the healing any and every family member experiences as they go on with their lives. I also respectfully encourage those who feel “they must be better now” to consider that we all heal at different paces. Join us as we pray for the families, our military, law enforcement and firefighters at this Saturday’s WE REMEMBER WALK in New York”, concludes Rev. Bill.

Rev. Bill will also offer prayer for pro football’s George Martin, who is walking across America to raise $10 million dollars for 911’s sick workers. Upon hearing of Martin’s plan to aid the workers Rev. Bill contacted his wife Dianne offering to make the 4 month journey with Martin. While respectfully declining the offer of support, because of a full team on the road, George and Dianne Martin asked for prayer and that we encourage people to go to their website ajourneyfor911.info to follow George’s progress and make a donation.

The WE REMEMBER WALKS were created to show the faces of those lost on 9/11.

World Trade Center Survivors’ Network

Dear WTCSN Members and Friends,

We wish to inform you that effective immediately Tania Head is no longer associated with the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network. Tania was involved with the WTCSN since its early days and we realize that this announcement may surprise or concern you.

We want to assure you that the WTCSN remains committed to supporting, encouraging and advocating for those who were affected by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The change in our organizational structure does not, and will not, affect our mission or lessen the level or quality of the services we provide.

However, during a brief transitional period, a few administrative changes will be taking place. Most importantly, the current Yahoo discussion/support group is no longer exclusive to our members. As a result, we are establishing a new, secure group and will send you details on it shortly.

In addition, an open meeting for all members of the WTCSN will take place in the near future. You will be notified of the time and place and invited to come, ask questions and express your thoughts in a supportive environment among others who share your experiences and understand your feelings.

The WTCSN was created so that we could help each other through crisis and its aftermath. That, as well as the bond of fellowship we share, remains unchanged.

If you are approached by the Press, please refer them to the media page of our web site: http://survivorsnet.org/media.htm.

Should you have questions or would like more information, please feel free to contact us at contact@survivorsnet.org.

Sincerely,
WTCSN Executive Board

Richard Zimbler, Acting President
Elia Zedeno, Secretary
Charles Kaczorowski, Treasurer
Manuel Chea
Janice Cilento
Linda Gormley
Mickey Kross
Lori Mogol
Anne Samachson
Tom Canavan

In a 9/11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don’t Fit

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM OPENS TRIBUTE EXHIBITION IN CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA
9/11 Family Member, FDNY Lieutenant and 9/11 Survivor and Local First Responders Sign Steel Beam for Memorial

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum today will open a tribute exhibition in Charleston, West Virginia that is touring nationally. The traveling exhibition, which honors the nearly 3,000 men and women who lost their lives on September 11, is intended to raise funds and awareness in support of building the National Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero. In a ceremony near Haddad Riverfront Park in Charleston later this morning, a victims’ family member, local first responders, and a former Fire Department New York Lieutenant and 9/11 survivor, will be among those signing a steel beam that will be used in the construction of the Memorial & Museum.

The exhibition tells the story of September 11 through photographs, artifacts and a short film from the point of view of families, responders, survivors, volunteers and everyday people who came together in the aftermath of the attacks. People from across the country are invited to come together again to pay tribute to the victims and to sign a steel beam that will be used in the construction of the Memorial & Museum.

“In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, our nation came together in a show of extraordinary unity,” said New York City Mayor and National September 11 Memorial & Museum Chairman Michael R. Bloomberg. “Building the National Memorial & Museum is an opportunity for people to come together again to create a lasting legacy for future generations. This tour will allow people across the country to take part in the creation of a new monument that signifies our response to the attacks and offers hope for the future.”

“Through this national tour we will involve as many Americans as possible in the building of the Memorial & Museum. September 11, 2001, was a defining event in this country’s history, and we are creating a national symbol that, like the Statue of Liberty, will tell us something about who we are as Americans,” said Joe Daniels, President and CEO, National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

The exhibition’s opening ceremonies are expected to include remarks from Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper; West Virginia Department of Military Affairs Cabinet Secretary James Spears; Charleston Mayor Danny Jones; West Virginia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Director Grant Gunnoe; Memorial & Museum Board Member Anthoula Katsimatides, who lost her brother on 9/11; and FDNY Lieutenant (Ret.) and 9/11 First Responder and Survivor Mickey Kross.

On behalf of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Mickey Kross will present the City of Charleston and its first responders with an American flag that was flown over Ground Zero. On September 11, 2001, Kross was a New York City firefighter with Engine Company 16, Ladder 7 and responded to the call that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He was one of 14 people trapped within a staircase to survive the collapse of the North Tower.

Charleston Firefighter Brian Evans will help begin the ceremony with an invocation. The Capital High School Honor Guard will present colors and more than 100 students from Capital High’s band and choir will perform America the Beautiful and the National Anthem while Capital High Soloist Micha Atkins will sing God Bless America. West Virginia State ROTC Major Michael Rauh will lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster and Fire Chief Randy Stanley will also be in attendance.

After the ceremony, participants will be invited to sign a steel beam that will be used in the construction of the Memorial & Museum. The event will conclude with a tour of the exhibition, which includes a detailed timeline of the events of September 11, photographs, artifacts and a short film.

“We are honored to have this moving tribute in Charleston,” said Charleston Mayor Danny Jones. “September 11 was a shared tragedy; a day that touched every American, no matter where we were or what we were doing. I encourage all residents to visit the tribute exhibition, sign the beam and make a donation. Let’s continue to do whatever we can do to build our National Memorial.”

“In the aftermath of the attacks, friends and strangers around the country offered their support to my family and the thousands who lost loved ones,” said Anthoula Katsimatides, who lost her brother, John Katsimatides, on 9/11. “It’s heartening to see people come together to help build this tribute. By preserving the many stories of September 11, the Memorial & Museum will forever honor the memory of my brother and the other innocent victims of the attacks.”

The steel beam used in the exhibition, manufactured by South Carolina-based Owen Steel Company, is part of the structural steel for the Memorial & Museum. In May 2007, the Memorial & Museum selected Owen Steel to supply, fabricate and erect the steel for the project. The beam is approximately 37 feet in length, and weighs about four tons.

The exhibition will be open today from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with opening ceremonies beginning at 10:00 a.m. Following Charleston, the exhibition will travel to Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information on the tour and additional tour stops, visit the Memorial & Museum’s website, http://www.national911memorial.org/. As details and locations are confirmed, tour information will be posted on the website.

The tour was launched in Columbia, South Carolina on September 10 and has already garnered the interest and support of thousands of visitors, yielding nearly $1 million in contributions since the announcement of the tour schedule in August. Because of the widespread public interest in the tour, ten additional cities were added, extending the tour’s reach to 25 states by the end of the year.

On September 23, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Memorial & Museum has raised more than $325 million towards its private fundraising goal of $350 million from donors in all 50 states and 30 foreign countries. This figure includes funds to support capital and planning costs, as well as an initial endowment to support operations once the Memorial & Museum opens. In less than one year, nearly $190 million of funds was raised.

Construction of the Memorial began in March 2006, with preliminary work to cover the original box beam columns that outline the perimeters of the Twin Towers. In August 2006, heavy construction work began to build the footings that will hold up the Memorial, Museum, and Plaza. At the end of this year, steel is expected to begin to rise at the site.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is the not-for-profit corporation created to realize the Memorial quadrant at the World Trade Center site. The organization is responsible for raising the funds and overseeing the design for the project and will program and operate the Memorial & Museum located on 8 of the 16 acres of the site.

The Memorial will remember and honor the thousands of people who died in the horrific attacks of February 26, 1993, and September 11, 2001. The design, created by Michael Arad and Peter Walker, consists of two pools that reside in the footprints of the original Twin Towers, surrounded by a plaza of oak trees. The Arad/Walker design was selected from a design competition that included more than 5,000 entrants from 63 nations.

The Museum will display monumental artifacts associated with the events of September 11, while presenting intimate stories of loss, compassion, reckoning and recovery that are central to telling the story of September 11 and its aftermath. It will communicate key messages that embrace both the specificity and the universal implications of the events of 9/11; document the impact of those events on individual lives, as well as on local, national, and international communities; and explore the continuing significance of these events for our global community.

Donations can be made through and more information can be found at the Memorial & Museum’s website, http://www.national911memorial.org/, or by calling 1-877-WTC-GIVE.

On Tuesday, September 25, 2007, one (1) potential human remain* was recovered from the World Financial Center.

Total Remains

1715

785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
409- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
266 - Liberty Street
3 - West Street
14 - Rooftop 130 Cedar
13 - DEP Subterranean Structure under the Haul Road
12 - Subterranean outside WTC site
4 - World Financial Center

NEW SEARCH

Remains recovered 1715

Remains sent for testing 0

DNA extracted 0

Matches 0

WTC Items Recovered 0

ORIGINAL SEARCH

Remains Recovered Over 20,000

Remains sent for testing NA

DNA extracted NA

Matches 1598

Remains tested with new process NA

DNA Extracted NA

Matches 11

WTC Items Recovered NA

(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)

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http://www.where-to-turn.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=23On Tuesday, September 25, 2007, one (1) potential human remain* was recovered from the World Financial Center.

Total Remains

1715

785 - Deutsche Bank
209 - Manholes
409- Haul road (including 3 from 39th Street Facility)
266 - Liberty Street
3 - West Street
14 - Rooftop 130 Cedar
13 - DEP Subterranean Structure under the Haul Road
12 - Subterranean outside WTC site
4 - World Financial Center

NEW SEARCH

Remains recovered 1715

Remains sent for testing 0

DNA extracted 0

Matches 0

WTC Items Recovered 0

ORIGINAL SEARCH

Remains Recovered Over 20,000

Remains sent for testing NA

DNA extracted NA

Matches 1598

Remains tested with new process NA

DNA Extracted NA

Matches 11

WTC Items Recovered NA

(We have requested this information on numerous occasions with no response. We will keep these as NA until we receive information from the ME’s Office)

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