Trade Center Workers Break for Holiday Dinner
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Recovery workers searching for human remains at the World Trade Center ruins in New York paused for a brief Christmas dinner as spectators crowded around the site.
The remains of several victims had been discovered in the rubble during the night as crews picked through what had been underground levels of the trade center. Those working at the site had volunteered to work Christmas.
“People are saying ‘Merry Christmas’ and stuff, but it doesn’t feel like Christmas out there,” said Patrick Shea, an emergency service police officer, as he finished work for the day. “We’d like to recover people today. In a weird way, it would be like a gift for somebody.”
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