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9/11 victims' names posted at Ground Zero

Panels near the World Trade Center site list 2,801 victims killed in the September 11 attacks.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Names of all 2,801 people killed by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center have been posted at Ground Zero.

"The Heroes of September 11, 2001" reads the heading on six panels attached to a fence on the eastern edge of the WTC site. The names are alphabetized, printed in white letters on black Plexiglas.

"Every one of those who died -- our firefighters, our police officers, our court officers, and emergency service workers -- everyone trapped in those buildings who died on September 11 is a hero," New York Gov. George Pataki said when the panels were unveiled.

"We'll never know how many countless acts of heroism occurred in those towers by people who risked their lives and ultimately gave their lives so that tens of thousands of others could escape," he said.

The names include more than 400 uniformed rescuers -- 343 firefighters, 23 police officers, and 37 officers for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Trade Center owner.

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They match the names on a revised list of victims published by the city's medical examiner last week. A spokeswoman for that office said 2,733 families have received death certificates.

Half the victims have been positively identified, but nearly half the death certificates were issued without remains, at the request of families who wanted to file claims for life insurance or charity benefits.

The Ground Zero cleanup was declared complete May 30. Construction workers preparing the site for rebuilding have already laid new train tracks. The first refurbished city subway station is scheduled to reopen this weekend.

The fence, with its panels, will not be accessible to the public until September 15. For the first few days, access to the sidewalk will be limited to victims' families.

The New York victims' list does not include the 10 hijackers who commandeered the two planes into the World Trade Center, but it does include the 127 passengers and 20 crew members on board.

The Pentagon has its own wall honoring its "heroes." The third hijacked plane killed 184 people -- 125 in the building plus 53 passengers and six crew members. The number does not include the five hijackers.

In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the fourth hijacked plane crashed, there were 40 victims -- 33 passengers and seven crew members. The four hijackers on that plane also are not counted.