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I VO Removal of cohimn a symbol of WTC cleanup’s end Twin lines of police officers and fire­ Rick Ostrander of the dockbuilders, ciala said. By Graham Rayman fighters lined up on tfie steel bridge who has worked at Ground Zero' since At 8:22 p.m., the beam was laid care STAFF WRITER and saluted the construction workers Sept. 12, said the ceremony should also 'give the guys closure, and I hope fully, on the ground before being placet

I Tradesmen from four key union lo­ as they walked out of the pit. Earlier in cals cut down the final surviving col­ on the flatbed truck. the day, welders burned the names of it goes a long way towards doing just umn from the World Trade Center’s Firefighter Thomas Fenech of Lad- the different locals and police and fire south tower last night in a solemn cere­ units into the beam, workers sdid. that. ” _ said Officials . remains - of 1,092 of thep' der 1 looked on with a clear - _ under _ mony at Ground Zero. For the construction workers who la­ 2,823 people killed on Sept. -11 have havJtTSlS^^^^ Amid applause and chants of “USA! bored for eight difficult, heartbreaking USA!,” a flag that flew atop of the been identified. The city Medical Exam — debns,” he said. "The beam « mofiths-at the site, the event was 36-feet-tall, 58-ton steel column was re­ viewed as a final step. iftet to continues ’s office ed effort an unprecodent identify 20,000 body at tha '^ky ’re here. beanjweand Yoh could be temiJdM moved and folded. that have been recovered. "e here.” ^minded of Lenio, a dockbuilder from North­ The last column standing at the site 2 of the largest terrorist attack in the United States was lifted from the port, said he came to Ground Zero with his four brothers, all construction work­ ers wh'bWanted to volunteer. Last night’s ceremony illustrated that what began as one event signaling ground, placed on the bed of a truck “I'Kind of asked to be involved,” he and then covered with a black shroud the official end of the recovery effort to await its removal from the pit tomor­ said. “Pve been here since Sept. 12. I has evolved into three events,' each row. came a burner, cutting steel and with a slightly different constituency “I wanted to be part of it,” said Matt looking for survivors.” and purpose. He said he did that for four or five - Tomorrow, a large, more public Lenio, 33, one of 14 people selected to month's, then started working Oh the be part of the ceremonial crew cutting tiebacks. ’ event attended by many elected offi- down the column, TomrDoUgherty, 41, one of six men cials and other dignitanes will begin at “It was pretty terrible what hap­ from Lbcdl 608 who covered the beain, 10:29 a.m., the time^of the collapse of pened here,” Lenio said. “I look at the said he also started working at the site the North Tower on Sept. 11. world a little differently now. It’s defi­ Sept, 12. Sunday, a third event will be field, nitely had an impact on my life as it Dougherty of Rockaway, N.J., said one that has been organized for the did all the people that worked down hdTw.as.glad to be part of last'night’s families of victims, some of whom will here.” ceremonyj _ The beam is so thick that workers not be able to attend tomorrow. let df families, hopefully, will get The cutting of the beam was neces- began cutting it at 4 p.m. yesterday. some'closure out of it,” he said?“This sa^ in advance of tomorrow’s event be- Shortly after 7 p.m., when the day has been a long, hard-periods-A lot of cSuse of the time needed to cut it down shift ends and the night shift begins, . think that it went Quickly, but in addition to safety concerns, site offl-. representatives of Dockbuilders Local for us down-.at the site, it was a long 1456. Ironworkers Local 40 and Labor­ time. ers Locals 731 and 79 each cut the four remaining corners, and men from Local 608 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners draped the shroud over the beam.