Funeral Planned for Last WTC Firefighter

[Khephra]

NEW YORK -- A vial of blood is all that will be buried at firefighter Michael Ragusa's funeral next week, nearly two years after he was killed in the World Trade Center attack.

The 29-year-old will be the last of the 343 firefighter victims to be memorialized in an official service. His family had hoped his remains would be identified, but his mother, Dee Ragusa, said Sunday that they decided they had waited long enough.

"We always knew in our hearts when it would be the right time, when we would say, 'enough,'" she said.

Of the 2,792 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the medical examiner has identified remains of just over half. Scientists expect to exhaust all available DNA technology in the attempt to identify the rest as early as next year, although unidentified remains will be stored in case new methods are developed.

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[w4rma]

1. Bush* is a failure (n/t)

[opihimoimoi]

2. more than a failure, an embarrassment.

He is shockingly naieve, mis informed, and brazenly arrogant.