'We never recovered him': Quest to identify remains from Ground Zero continues
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Juliette Scauso was four, the youngest of four children, when her father, firefighter Dennis Scauso, was killed in 9/11 For 25 years, the only physical trace Juliette Scauso has had from the last day of her father's life is his mangled firefighter helmet.
朱丽叶·斯考索 (Juliette Scauso) 的父亲、消防员丹尼斯·斯考索 (Dennis Scauso) 在 9/11 事件中丧生，当时她四岁，是四个孩子中最小的一个 25 年来，朱丽叶·斯考索 (Juliette Scauso) 在父亲生命最后一天留下的唯一痕迹就是他那顶破损的消防头盔。
Scauso's father, Dennis - part of a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) hazmat unit for 12 years - initially was not scheduled to work on 11 September, 2001, but switched shifts for the overtime pay.
斯考索的父亲丹尼斯 (Dennis) 在纽约市消防局 (FDNY) 危险品部门工作了 12 年，最初没有安排在 2001 年 9 月 11 日上班，但为了获得加班费而换了班。
The Long Island father of four was likely in the South Tower of the World Trade Center when it collapsed, the Scauso family was told.
斯考索一家被告知，这位长岛四个孩子的父亲在世贸中心倒塌时很可能就在世贸中心南塔内。
The helmet with his badge number was found months later. "I've spent essentially my entire life knowing my father died, and learning to live with the fact that we never recovered him," said Scauso, who was four when he died.
几个月后，人们发现了带有他徽章号码的头盔。 斯考索去世时年仅四岁，他说：“我基本上一生都知道父亲去世了，并学会接受我们从未找回他的事实。”
Dennis Scauso is one of more than 1,000 people killed on September 11 in New York who have yet to be identified, according to New York City's Office of Chief Medical Examiner.
据纽约市首席法医办公室称，丹尼斯·斯考索是 9 月 11 日在纽约遇难的 1000 多人之一，其身份尚未确定。
Nearly 3,000 people died in the World Trade Center attacks that day. Last month, the city announced the identity of a previously unknown victim of the terrorist attacks - the 1,654th person - using a new technology called forensic investigative genetic genealogy - or FIGG.
当天世贸中心袭击事件造成近3000人死亡。 上个月，该市利用一种名为法医调查基因谱系学 (FIGG) 的新技术，公布了一名此前未知的恐怖袭击受害者的身份，即第 1,654 人。
"There is real promise in using this approach," said Angela Soler, director of forensic anthropology in the city's medical examiner office.
“使用这种方法确实有希望，”该市法医人类学主任安吉拉·索勒说。
"There's hope for more families to receive answers, and hopefully we'll be able to test more remains in the future using this technology as well." Since 9/11, Soler's office has sought to identify the remains of the 2,753 victims who died in the World Trade Center.
“希望更多的家庭得到答案，希望我们将来也能够使用这项技术测试更多的遗骸。” 自 9/11 以来，索勒办公室一直在努力辨认世贸中心 2,753 名遇难者的遗体。
So far, 60 percent of those killed have been identified. "It's been one of the most complex identification efforts that I think anybody has ever really experienced," Soler said.
到目前为止，60%的遇难者身份已得到确认。 索勒说：“我认为这是任何人都真正经历过的最复杂的识别工作之一。”
Efforts to identify victims have been complicated by a number of factors.
由于多种因素，确定受害者身份的工作变得更加复杂。
Human remains were damaged in the plane crashes and fires caused by jet fuel, meaning the office had only portions of victims for DNA samples, Soler said.
索勒说，在飞机失事和喷气燃料引起的火灾中，人体遗骸遭到损坏，这意味着该办公室只有部分遇难者的 DNA 样本。
Scauso added that because of the timing of the attacks, many firefighters were changing shifts, but some stayed to help, grabbing whatever extra gear they could find.
斯考索补充说，由于袭击发生的时间安排，许多消防员正在换班，但有些人留下来提供帮助，抓住他们能找到的任何额外装备。
This meant some first responders recovered were wearing uniforms with others' names, complicating identification. The World Trade Center site also had many more victims than the other 9/11 terrorist attack sites.
这意味着一些康复的急救人员穿着印有其他人名字的制服，这使得身份识别变得更加复杂。 世贸中心遗址的受害者也比其他 9/11 恐怖袭击地点多得多。
The remains of five of the 184 people killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon were never identified because of similar conditions.
美国航空 77 号航班撞向五角大楼，造成 184 人死亡，其中 5 人的遗体因类似情况而未能得到确认。
According to the National Park Service, enough remains were recovered to use DNA, dental records and fingerprints to identify all 40 victims aboard United Airlines flight 93, which crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Remains from the World Trade Center have been packaged and sealed to help preserve DNA for testing in the years to come.
据国家公园管理局称，已找到足够的遗骸，可利用 DNA、牙科记录和指纹来识别联合航空 93 号航班上所有 40 名遇难者的身份，该航班坠毁在宾夕法尼亚州尚克斯维尔的一片田野中。 世贸中心的遗骸已被包装和密封，以帮助保存 DNA 以供未来测试。
Soon after the attacks, individuals were identified using fingerprints or dental records, but as time went on, when neither was available, the office turned to DNA. Officials were able to use new technology to extract DNA and retest the same remains. "That's why all these years down the road, we're still getting new identifications, because we're just continuing to retest and retry with every new technology that becomes available," Soler said.
袭击发生后不久，人们使用指纹或牙科记录来识别个人身份，但随着时间的推移，当这两种记录都无法提供时，办公室转而使用 DNA。 官员们能够使用新技术提取 DNA 并重新测试相同的遗骸。 索勒说：“这就是为什么这些年来我们仍然不断获得新的识别信息，因为我们只是继续重新测试和重试每一项可用的新技术。”
DNA technology has helped the office identify 1,495 victims since 9/11 - some solely with DNA and others with multiple methods - according to the medical examiner's office.
据法医办公室称，自 9/11 事件以来，DNA 技术已帮助该办公室识别了 1,495 名受害者，其中一些仅使用 DNA，另一些则使用多种方法。
Last year, the city announced that with the help of DNA, 24 years later, it had identified three new victims - Ryan Fitzgerald, a 26-year-old currency trader, Babara Keating, a 72-year-old who was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, and a woman whose family kept her identity private.
去年，该市宣布，在 24 年后的 DNA 帮助下，它确认了三名新受害者的身份：26 岁的货币交易员瑞安·菲茨杰拉德 (Ryan Fitzgerald)、搭乘美国航空 11 号航班从波士顿飞往洛杉矶的 72 岁的巴巴拉·基廷 (Babara Keating)，以及一名家人保密身份的妇女。
Soler said the new FIGG technology uses whole genome sequencing - which provides a way to read someone's entire genetic code.
索勒说，新的FigG技术使用全基因组测序——这提供了一种读取某人整个遗传密码的方法。
It means investigators can make more potential matches to family members who are more distant relatives of the victim. Once those matches are made, the New York Police Department helps find relatives who are closer to the victims. The medical examiner's office in New York still gets weekly calls from loved ones asking about someone whose remains were never recovered.
这意味着调查人员可以与受害者的远亲家庭成员进行更多潜在的匹配。 一旦匹配成功，纽约警察局就会帮助寻找与受害者关系较近的亲属。 纽约法医办公室每周仍会接到亲人打来的电话，询问遗体尚未找到的人的情况。
Many have never been able to bury a loved one, but some families choose to leave the remains - once found - at a repository at the 9/11 memorial site in New York.
许多人从未能够埋葬亲人，但一些家庭选择将遗骸（一旦被发现）留在纽约 9/11 纪念地点的储藏室。
The repository was built into the bedrock of the World Trade Center site and can only be accessed by medical examiner staff. A nearby private space, known as the reflection room, is available for families to mourn. "That's where their loved one was in their last moments, and that's where they want them to stay", Soler said.
该存储库建在世贸中心遗址的基岩中，只有法医人员才能访问。 附近有一个私人空间，称为反思室，可供家人哀悼。 索勒说：“这是他们的亲人在最后时刻所在的地方，也是他们希望他们留下的地方。”
Some don't want to be notified, perhaps because the confirmation is too painful, said Soler, who helps inform families.
帮助通知家人的索勒说，有些人不想收到通知，也许是因为确认太痛苦了。
Scauso is one of those people.
斯考索就是其中之一。
She knows people who, in recent years, got a call that a relative finally has been identified. The thought of being next on the list is scary for her family, who has worked hard to keep the memory of her father - a jack of all trades and a lover of jazz - alive. "At this point, an identification wouldn't change the reality of his death.
她认识的一些人，近年来接到电话称其亲属终于被确认了。 一想到成为名单上的下一个，她的家人就感到害怕，他们一直在努力让人们记住她的父亲——一位多才多艺、热爱爵士乐的父亲。 “此时此刻，身份确认并不能改变他死亡的现实。
It wouldn't give me back my father, and I don't necessarily want to reopen something that has become part of the way I've learned to live and grieve," she said. "Especially 25 years later, it's going to open up the wounds again." Scauso says that her father Dennis's helmet was the only item recovered, with his FDNY badge, where he worked for 12 years But, Scauso said, the technology is important.
它不会让我找回我的父亲，我也不一定想重新打开一些已经成为我学会生活和悲伤的方式一部分的东西，”她说。 “尤其是25年后，伤口还会再次揭开。” 斯考索说，她父亲丹尼斯的头盔是唯一找到的物品，上面有他在纽约消防局工作了 12 年的徽章 但是，斯考索说，技术很重要。
Soler has seen the news provide a mix of both relief and sadness.
索勒看到这个消息既让人松了口气，又让人感到悲伤。
"It's confirmation of something that they always knew to be true - they knew their loved one died on 9/11, but I think for many families, there's still that question in the back of their mind until the remains are formally identified," Soler said.
索勒说：“这证实了他们一直都知道的事情——他们知道自己的亲人在 9/11 死了，但我认为对于许多家庭来说，在遗体得到正式确认之前，他们的脑海中仍然存在这个问题。”
"Maybe they're reliving it a little bit more now, having this new identification. But at the same time, it closes one chapter of their journey after 9/11," she added.
“也许他们现在有了这个新的身份，可以更多地重温它。 但与此同时，9/11 事件之后他们的旅程也结束了，”她补充道。
To Soler - and some of her current colleagues who also were on the ground during 9/11 - the work is deeply personal. Workers from their office arrived at Ground Zero after the planes hit the towers, and were there when the buildings collapsed.
对于索莱尔以及她目前在 9/11 事件期间也在现场的一些同事来说，这项工作是非常个人化的。 飞机撞上塔楼后，他们办公室的工作人员赶到了归零地，并在建筑物倒塌时赶到了现场。
They are aware it is unlikely they will identify every victim of the New York attacks. In some instances, there may be no remains of a victim at all.
他们意识到他们不太可能识别纽约袭击事件的每一位受害者。 在某些情况下，可能根本没有受害者的遗体。
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尽管如此，他们仍然没有停止的计划。 “只要还有家人在寻找答案，我们就会继续寻找，”她说。 “一直萦绕在我的脑海中”——25 年后，9/11 事件对失去亲人的人来说仍然是一种痛苦 马姆达尼说，9/11 袭击后，纽约人被“欺骗”，说空气有毒
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