There’s a small piece of paper at the new National September 11 Memorial Museum with my name scrawled across the top. Underneath my name, in black ballpoint pen, it says: Abd pain; Diff breathing; Inhalation.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation, with its new museum recently opened in Manhattan, often speaks of its "stakeholders": family members of victims, survivors, first responders, recovery workers, local residents, historic preservationists, and government officials. More.
The number of first responders suffering from cancer after inhaling 9/11 fumes has more than doubled since last year, according to a new report. Some 1,655 cops, city workers, volunteers and locals exposed to toxins from the collapse of the World Trade Center have been diagnosed with the deadly disease, according to Mount Sinai Hospital's World Trade Center Health Program, which tracks the health of 37,000 first responders.