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Sept. 11 victim's wedding ring returned to widow

PORTOLA VALLEY, California (CNN) -- The September 11 attacks made Dorothy Garcia a widow after more than three decades of marriage.

VIDEO Dorothy Garcia tells reporter Rigo Chacon about the wedding ring retrieved from the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 (December 27) Play video (QuickTime, Real or Windows Media)

Her husband Andrew Garcia was en route home to California after a business trip when terrorists hijacked United Flight 93 and his plane went down in rural Pennsylvania.

Dorothy Garcia understood that her husband's body would not be found in the wreckage, but she begged FBI agents to find the ring he had worn since their wedding day.

More on how her plea was answered from reporter Rigo Chacon from CNN San Francisco affiliate KGO.