In a 2019 video the FBI produced to increase awareness of the FBI 9/11 Responder Benefits Program, Jack says that after he responded to the Pentagon the day of the terrorist attack, he didn’t return to the site for years. About 17 years later, he says, “they found a tumor on my kidney.” He hadn’t registered for the benefits program, he said, because “it was 17 years ago. I’m fine. I was there for one day. I’m fine. In reality, those were bad assumptions. Seventeen years is right within the gestation period for the type of tumor I had.”
ABC News reported four years ago that 10 times as many New York police officers (241) had died of 9/11-related illnesses than the number (23) who were killed the day of the attack. The union for the Fire Department of New York lists on its website firefighters who died because of the attack on the World Trade Center and lists six deaths that occurred after my friend Jack died on Aug. 4. Ahead of last year’s 9/11 anniversary, union President Andrew Ansbro said he expected the number of firefighters dying of illnesses related to 9/11 to soon surpass the 343 personnel killed that day.
A similar phenomenon holds true for first responders at the other crash sites. A 2021 report from the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund said “more people are now believed to have died of 9/11-related illnesses than were lost on September 11, 2001.”
The additions to the memorial wall bring the total number of FDNY members who have succumbed to post-9/11 illnesses to 331, which is nearly equal to the number of firefighters killed in the Twin Towers on the day of the attacks.
The new names were unveiled at a ceremony on Wednesday and represent the second largest group to be added to the memorial wall since it was created 12 years ago with 55 names.
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When you think about all of that dust that was in the air that day, it's not surprising there are cancers, etc. related to it. I don't remember if asbestos was used in the building, or if it had been banned when the WTC was built
The one thing few people saw coming twenty-two years ago, was a day in our lives when the greatest threat to our safety was no longer planes in the sky…hijacked by foreign terrorists, but from Americans, living in our own neighborhoods, on streets like Main & Willow Lane.
— Jack Hopkins (@thejackhopkins) September 11, 2023
Flight 93 sacrificed their lives to protect the Capitol and 20 years later MAGA Republicans attacked it.
— Life is Safer With Fewer Guns (@KevinSixx13) September 10, 2023