By Kari Milchman

Like everything regarding the aftermath of 9/11, the completion of the World Trade Center Memorial Museum will be delayed. The actual Memorial—consisting of two submerged voids filled with water marking where the twin towers once stood—is still expected to open to the public in 2009, but the adjoining museum, which is underground and will showcase WTC artifacts, is not expected to open until the following year. The delay is due in large part to the prolonged completion of a visitors center and a vehicle security center, the latter of which will provide parking for up to 28 buses. But maybe a delay in turning what was a horrendous case of mass murder into a tourist attraction isn’t the worst thing going on at Ground Zero. Last week, workers found more remains at Ground Zero. Three bone fragments have been retrieved from a second manhole, near where approximately 200 bones were previously found. Officials are now searching 12 additional manholes and other underground areas, which they say were overlooked during the initials efforts to recover remains after 9/11.