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There are Places I Remember
Author: Raine
Date: 09/11/2023 12:36:02
Today we'll honor those we lost on 9/11. We have done it for over two decades now. 22 years on and we now teach our children about those events as if it's a distant history with the magnitude of Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, many people our age, having lived through it view it as an event that happened in real time before our very eyes.
Real-time becomes history. That said, people are very much dealing with 9/11/01 today, in real time. Funerals are still being held. FDNY added more names to the wall. I can no longer feel all the feelings of that day, but for me, it's never going to be completely in the past. My great-niece just entered Kindergarten, it will be for her. I hope that's a good thing.
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Raine
Real-time becomes history. That said, people are very much dealing with 9/11/01 today, in real time. Funerals are still being held.
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.
& Raine
