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Rally: U.S. must pay post-9/11 doctor bills
Disgraceful. A tragedy. These were just some of the sentiments voiced Monday by community members who came to support 9/11 responders and their families seeking to pressure Rep. Frank J. Pallone Jr., D-N.J., to post a bill that would pay their medical bills.
9/11 Protest Hits Rep. Frank Pallone
Today, his friends brought their grief and anger to the Long Branch, N.J., office of one of the congressmen who has failed to move legislation that would permanently help other people who sacrificed at Ground Zero.
Kelly: Rescue workers rally at Ground Zero
They huddled in the winter shadows and the frigid air, this group of wounded veterans of Ground Zero, some of them leaning on canes or walkers, some breathing from oxygen tanks.
9/11 first responder health bill urged at Zadroga salute at Ground Zero
Dozens of first responders gathered at Ground Zero Tuesday to honor the first person to die of 9/11-related illness – and to push for the health care bill that bears his name
Family tears mix with firefighters’ anger as sefless 9/11 responder is laid to rest
Braving icy winds, hundreds of firefighters eulogized colleague Jim Ryan Tuesday as a true 9/11 hero who was snubbed in death by the city he proudly served.
Death of 9/11 firefighter hero Jim Ryan overshadowed by ‘flashier’ Flight 253 terrorism story
Jim Ryan and his family didn’t know he had been killed by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. They didn’t find that out until early Christmas morning 2009, eight years later, when the firefighter’s lungs finally overfilled with fluids, the side-effects of pancreatic cancer inflicted on him by the toxic dust he swallowed in hundreds of hours at Ground Zero
Family’s anger at FDNY’s snub of wake for 9/11 hero James Ryan
The somber wake for Long Island firefighter James Ryan Sunday was filled with sadness and anger.
Forgotten to the max: Sick Montana town gets aid while WTC heroes stay forgotten
As Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson did, as Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu did, as Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd did – and as New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand did not do – Montana Sen. Max Baucus got a big special something for his state in the Senate health care bill
Hero 9/11 first responder Jim Ryan dies of pancreatic cancer on Christmas Day
Sept. 11 first responder Jim Ryan did not make it through Christmas. The former firefighter who spent months in the toxic rubble of Ground Zero succumbed to pancreatic cancer two hours into Christmas Day, his family said
Hero FDNY firefighter Jim Ryan, dying of pancreatic cancer, makes plea to Congress to pass 9/11 bill
It’s time, Jim Ryan wanted to tell Congress Wednesday, as hundreds of his fellow Sept. 11 responders journeyed to Capitol Hill.