article_snippet: The question is: How long and at what cost will the forensic team keep working to identify these last 9/11 remains?
article_snippet: The team's annual salary budget is $230,000, plus costs for follow-up work by other scientists and staff.
article_snippet: Desire said that as new technology becomes available, the efforts to identify the fragments will continue indefinitely.
article_snippet: Charles Strozier, founding director of the Center on Terrorism at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that work must continue 'because our relationship to the Sept. 11 disaster hinges on being able to identify and pay respects to those who died.'
article_snippet: For Desire, it's not just a grim scientific task
article_snippet: It's a service and an honor, working on something that has transformed American history,' He said.