'Last Column' returned to New York 9/11 siteThe symbolic final steel beam removed from the rubble of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks in 2001 was returned to Ground Zero, site of a monument Anything by which the memory of a person, thing, idea, art, science or event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. In real-property for victims of the worst terror attack terror attack n → atentado (terrorista) terror attack n → attentato terroristico on US soil. The "Last Column" -- covered in tributes from workers, rescue personnel and family members before it was removed from the site in May 2002 marking the end of the recovery efforts -- was set as one of the centerpieces of the future 9/11 Memorial Museum, which officials hope to complete by the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The 11-meter-long (36-foot-long) column was transferred from a hangar at New York's John F. Kennedy International airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK, FAA LID: JFK to the site of the attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead when members of Al-Qaeda hijacked two passenger planes and flew them into the Twin Towers. Nearly eight years after the attacks, the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. is struggling to advance the reconstruction work in lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North , where a new World Trade Center consisting of the memorial, a transportation center and five gleaming skyscrapers has been hampered by wrangling between the site's owners and developers and, since 2008, the effects of the recession. 
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