Cleanup comes to end at WTC's ground zero
Friday, May 31, 2002
NEW YORK -- An empty, flag-draped stretcher symbolizing all the victims of the World Trade Center attack who could not be found was carried from the rubble Thursday in a solemn, wordless ceremony marking the end of the agonizing, 8 1/2-month cleanup.
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