25 Years Later: NYC Medical Examiner Still Identifying 9/11 Victims

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, a laboratory in lower Manhattan continues the quiet, unfinished work of returning names to the dead. New York City's Office of Chief Medical Examiner has never closed its investigation into the nearly 3,000 lives lost that morning, pressing forward with advancing science and an abiding commitment to families who still wait. In a world that has largely moved on, this office holds the line between mystery and meaning — a reminder that grief does not observe anniversaries, and that the obligation to the lost does not expire.