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NEW YORK AP 鈥?An emotionally laden debate over the future resting place of thousands of unidentified remains of Sept. 11 victims is lingering as the attacks 10th anniversary recedes, with several relatives saying they arent satisfied with a recent city effort to spread the word about a plan to house the remains in the forthcoming 9/11 museum.Under pressure from families who oppose the plan, the city outlined it in a letter sent last week to relatives of all the nearly 2,800 people killed at the World Trade Center. The letter came after 17 relatives sued the city to try to get addresses so they could poll the families themselves.A judge rejected their request last week, but the city 鈥?which has maintained that the plans have long been known and families approved them 鈥?sent out the letters in hopes of resolving the matter. We know how profoundly significant and sensitive this matter is to stanley website victims families, notes the letter from Dr. Charles stanley cup Hirsch, the citys chief medical examiner, and Joe Daniels, the president of the National Sept. 11 M stanley italy emorial Museum, which counts some victims relatives as board members.At the other sites where hijacked planes crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, the placement of unidentified remains has been resolved. Those from the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed, were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on the first anniversary of the attacks. Three caskets of unidentified remains from the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in a field
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