More World Trade Center wreckage joined the collection the Port Authority already kept at Kennedy International Airport this week. Pieces were trucked in from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

The pieces had been in the care of the NIST so that they could undergo testing and help with the investigation concerning the cause of the World Trade Center’s collapse. (It seems safe to assume that they did a bit of sitting around and collecting dust, too, in the span of eight years).

Now, as Terri Sanginiti reported, “A convoy of 25 flatbed tractor-trailers carrying twisted steel from the World Trade Center drove through Delaware . . . with a state police escort headed for Kennedy International Airport in New York. . . . The contents of steel are bound for Hangar 17 at the airport to be preserved with other artifacts recovered from the World Trade Center.”

Many of the trucks bearing the pieces displayed flags and “Never Forget” banners. Other motorists sometimes pulled over out of respect, or at least to take pictures.

Given the rate at which the Port Authority has started to pass out World Trade Center artifacts, it may not be long before some of the pieces are brought back out of storage and integrated into memorials, either.