An ad hoc group of supporters are planning to construct a September 11 memorial park adjacent to the fire station on North Putt Corners Road and Henry Dubois Drive. Supporter Butch Dener on Friday said efforts are being made to have the park opened by the anniversary this year and has gotten the support of several organizations.

In the past decade due to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the term post-traumatic stress disorder has become the focus of countless headlines and has entered the collective conscience. But it is far from a new concept. During previous wars in history, the term for PTSD was known as soldier’s heart, shell shock, battle fatigue, and war neurosis, among others. As ancient, is its flipside: post-traumatic growth. More.

Victims' families arguing Saudi government was linked to the attacks; the attorney for those families, Jim Kreindler, weighs in. More.

US Sen Kirsten Gillibrand says that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act, a bill to permanently extend and fully fund the 9/11 health and compensation programs, has garnered 61 Senate cosponsors, including 15 Republicans​ – a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate – and 237 cosponsors in the House of Representatives. More.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, flanked by police and firefighters, pushed Congress on Thursday to keep dollars flowing to a health program for first responders and others who got sick working in the rubble of the Sept. 11 attacks. More.

Current and former members of Congress, U.S. officials, 9/11 Commissioners and the families of the attack's victims want 28 top-secret pages of a congressional report released. Bob Graham, the former Florida governor, Democratic U.S. Senator and onetime chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, says the key section of a top secret report he helped author should be declassified. More.