Twenty-five years later, one lab three miles from Ground Zero is still identifying 9/11 victims. The lab promised the families it would never give up — and it hasn't. Mark Desire and the NYC medical examiner team are still pulling DNA from tiny bone fragments that the fire, jet fuel, and water nearly destroyed. Last month, the team identified the 1,651st victim. Nearly 7,000 pieces still have no match. The team has gone back to the same bones 10 times, waiting for the science to catch up. A firefighter’s helmet went home. The man who wore it has not. This is what “never forget” looks like when the cameras leave: a sterilized room, a shredded jacket from the day the towers fell, and a vow that did not expire.Pat also covered: GOP midterm convention is over — was Dallas a JD Vance coronation? George W. Bush loved this country, and on 9/11 he pulled it together JD Vance got heckled on the convention floor in Dallas Where were you when the towers fell? Did America forget what happened on 9/11?Did you know they were still identifying victims in 2026? If you had a loved one missing that day, would any fragment be enough?If you want unfiltered truth and commonsense analysis that cuts through the noise, hit subscribe and turn on notifications.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices