The Anniversary

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A company that lost 67 people in it has an evening reception/memorial every year at the Central Park Zoo (where I work)- there's a nice plaque with the names of the employees they lost in the central garden area. The atmosphere of the event gets slightly brighter each year as time heals things. They did a nice job with it this year- there were roses to lay at the plaque tonight and a bagpipe group played.

The thing I remember most in the days after is the smell of the rubble burning- you had to keep your face covered when you went outside. Whatever one's political leanings, you have to give credit to Clinton and Schumer and Maloney and the other Congresspeople pushing for $$ for the care of the rescue workers. If you can, take time to email your own Representatives and tell them the rescue workers who are now in ill health as a result of working there deserve to be taken care of. Regardless of whomever said the air was safe, it clearly wasn't, and these people deserve to be taken care of, seeing as how they sacrificed their health down there in the weeks and months afterwards. We can't bring back the dead, but we can care for the living who searched for them.