Vets relieved after 9/11 memorial feared missing from Afghanistan is located in NY

A piece of the World Trade Center which became a beloved 9/11 memorial at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan — and was feared missing when American troops abruptly left the country — is safe and sound in upstate New York, The Post has learned.

A group of Queens veterans who arranged to have the 10-foot-tall, 900-pound steel girder, emblazoned with “WTC” and “9 11 01,” donated to US troops in Afghanistan in 2010, raised the alarm last month when no one seemed to know its location. “Even people at The Pentagon didn’t know where it was,” said Claudia Thomas, a 9/11 first responder and former civilian contractor in Afghanistan, who was among those trying to determine the fate of the beam.