NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — The National September 11 Memorial Museum on Tuesday afternoon added the long lost portrait of one of the nearly 3,000 victims killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center to its "In Memoriam" exhibition.
Albert Ogletree was a food service worker at the Cantor Fitzgerald cafeteria in the North Tower when he was killed in the 9/11 attacks at the age of 49.
For more than two decades, his face was missing from the museum's collection.
Some detective work led to a high school in Michigan, where a teacher had discovered Ogletree's portrait in an old yearbook.
"He found a very sweet and kind of young portrait of Albert Ogletree when he was a freshman," museum curator Jan Ramirez said.
Ramirez said part of the museum's mission is to not only remember the victims, but also individualize every life lost in the 9/11 and 1993 terrorist attacks.
"Our sort of mission is to never forget and there's never a deadline on that," Ramirez said. "No life becomes absorbed in a statistic, it's a life and this is where we honor the lives."
One photo remains missing, that of 43-year-old Antonio Dorsey Pratt, who also worked for a food service company in the North Tower.
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