Remember to honor all 9-11 victims

Three hundred and forty-three firefighters died trying to save people during the harrowing attacks that day. Since then, 200 more have died from Ground Zero-related illnesses.

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September 9, 2021 - 10:27 AM

New York City firefighters hug each other during rescue operations at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (Ron Agam/Getty Images/TNS)

Statistics from Dr. David Prezant, the FDNY’s chief medical officer, show that three out of four firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians who labored on The Pile in the days, weeks and months after 9/11 where the World Trade Center once stood now suffer health ailments from the poison ground and the poison air. Twenty years on after the day of destruction and fire, Ground Zero continues haunting the heroes and victims of 9/11.

Prezant, a pulmonologist who was there on 9/11 to treat FDNY members and escaped the collapse of the South Tower, has been examining…

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