"[Cindy] Alvarez, a special agent with the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), was on assignment in Rockville when the call came that morning to report to the Pentagon.... Alvarez said she and her fellow workers sorted through debris from collapsed Pentagon walls and pieces of the hijacked airplane. They found the fox cutters used by the hijackers to commandeer the place, identificaiton papers, money, jewlery, and body parts. 'These pieces of bodies, we treated like precious treasure,' Alvarez said. 'We knew this was somebody's family member. We knew they were waiting for the bodies to be returend so they could bury them properly and begin the healing process.' Alvarez said one of the disburbing aspects of her job was recovering the items of children who had been on board the plane. 'It was upsetting to find children's shoes, their little suitcases and their stuffed animals,' she said."
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"As the day wore on, the rescue efforts became instead, a grim search for body parts. 'I picked up a child's hand. That was it. Just a child's hand and that's when I got angry. I wonder why someone could do this. You can come after me. I'm a soldier. I have sworn to protect and defend, but that wasn't right," says [Sgt. Major Tomy] Rose."
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