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Bush at last accepts a nation’s debt
By order of President Bush, the United States government now recognizes, for the first time, an obligation to provide for the forgotten victims of 9/11, those men and women who did their duty after an act of war and suffered the loss of their health or their lives. This could not be any other way.
Bush May Meet With Dead Officer’s Son
A White House spokesman said last night that President Bush might meet tomorrow with a New York college student whose father recently died from an illness that may have been linked to his work at ground zero. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the president yesterday to meet with Ceasar Borja Jr., the son of Cesar Borja, 52, a police officer who died last week of pulmonary fibrosis, a type of chronic lung disorder that involves scarring of the tissue between the air sacs.
Time for action is now before the list of fallen heroes grows
First Firefighter Stephen Johnson, 47, died battling for breath. Then Officer James Godbee, 44. Then Detective James Zadroga, 29. Then telephone worker Mark DeBiase, 41
Officer Who Epitomized Ills of Ground Zero Workers Dies
A former New York City police officer died of a lung disease last night, hours before his son attended the State of the Union address to draw attention to the plight of 9/11 rescue workers like him who became ill after they were exposed to toxic dust at ground zero.
He will tell the nation about his dying dad
His father answered the call to duty and now the son follows. Ceasar Borja, all of 21 years old, will tonight join the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and members of the Supreme Court in listening to George W. Bush’s seventh State of the Union address. The President’s words will fill the august chamber as the young man’s dad slips ever closer to death.
Money to Treat 9/11 Workers Will Run Out, Officials Say
The roughly $40 million that was set aside by the federal government to treat rescue workers, volunteers and firefighters who became ill after helping with the 9/11 cleanup and recovery will run out in months, physicians and federal officials said yesterday.
A Fair Deal for 9/11’s Injured
FIVE years have passed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but the flood of litigation continues unabated in federal court in Manhattan. Some 6,000 people are suing New York City, the Port Authority and more than 100 private contractors for negligence in exposing workers to toxic dust and fumes after the collapse of the World Trade Center.
From new infamy must come honor
After this act of war exactly 65 years ago, America came to the aid of citizen responders…now, the U.S. owes care to those who rallied when the twin towers were attacked.
Cleanup of 9/11 Dust to Resume, E.P.A. Says, Despite Widespread Criticism
More than five years after contaminated dust from the World Trade Center seeped into apartments and offices throughout Lower Manhattan, the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced plans yesterday to start a final indoor cleanup program next month, despite widespread criticism that the program is seriously flawed.
No to Planned Guidelines on 9/11-Related Autopsies
The federal government has abandoned efforts to create standardized autopsy guidelines to help determine whether deaths of people who worked at ground zero during recovery operations in 2001 and 2002 can be conclusively connected to the hazardous smoke and dust they breathed there.