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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm a New Yorker and I wasn't a Hero on 9/11
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Do you know anybody who really is a hero?
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marybourg
(12,620 posts)It's a nice article; different from what you might think from reading the above.
Maybe I should have have put in other snips.
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)His firehouse wasn't far from the WTC, and his company was first due, so they got there early.
He had already been in one of the towers to evacuate people and was getting ready to go in a second time when the the first tower came down.
He volunteered for weeks to sift through the debris at the dump on Staten Island looking for remains.
He was the FDNY liaison to one of the widows who had four children and was pregnant with her fifth. (It was so early in the pregnancy that she didn't know yet that she was expecting. Her husband never knew.)
My husband's company got back to quarters late and stayed up the whole night. They were shocked the next morning to see so much sunlight. They had never realized that the firehouse stood in a shadow cast by the Twin Towers.
That is an incredible and uplifting story. I am so glad I got to read it.
lapucelle
(18,252 posts)because heroes don't brag. (Their partners and parents do, however.)
When my husband got sick with unexpected and unusual symptoms, he wasn't covered by the special programs that had been put in place by the government to monitor and treat first responders. There were dozens like him, and the my family was in dire straights just trying to afford the $800 a month in medication not covered by insurance.
That's when our senator stepped in and fought for medical monitoring and treatment for the first responders who had fallen through the cracks due to their unusual ailments. She also persuaded pharmaceutical companies to donate the medications at cost.
Hillary Clinton is my husband's 9/11 hero.
She didn't brag either.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I was in Greenwich Village that day and watched them come down. I was not a hero. Just a horrified citizen doing the zombie walk back home uptown. Your husband was a true hero.