I Cried Today
The following is a post found on a blogsite dedicated to respiratory illnesses called "Not *Quite* Dead Yet" and it is about our charity.
I have been holding back and trying so hard to remain clinical (for the most part), that I have not discussed much of the emotion involved in learning about these difficulties we all share. I then received notification of a new member to this blog today, a person whose email address clearly identified them as a member of FDNY, or the New York Fire Department. My eyes welled up, and I was compelled to write to this person. As I wrote, those welled tears fell in thanks and remembrance for people who aided our fellow country people on September 11, 2001.
Many of the people who aided in first-response on September 11, 2001 are dead. Many of those who aided in first response, lived through the horror, and then went on to work for months respectfully clearing the World Trade Center - Ground Zero - area, are now becoming very ill with interstitial lung disease, COPD, and mesothelioma, not to mention the emotional issues involved.
They were told the air was safe. After the first days, few wore masks. Asbestos flew with each movement of the clean-up crew whose primary concern was not their own painful life and death later, but the immediacy of the job at hand - retrieving the remains of the fallen ones.
Today, many of those brave men and women are becoming our fallen ones. I have added FDNY to the list of member sites in the sidebar of this blog. Please visit. Buy their products, if you can. Remember that we all HEART New York, and honor the memory of those we lost by purchasing the wares being sold to aid those who worked valiantly to remediate a horrible wrong perpetrated on United States soil.
As a disclaimer, I live in Indiana. I have no ties to www.newyorkfire.com, nor their linked sites selling items to aid those who answered when the needs of America were very, very dire.
Posted in Thanks, Site News December 29th, 2006 by OptyMyst | No comments
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I have been holding back and trying so hard to remain clinical (for the most part), that I have not discussed much of the emotion involved in learning about these difficulties we all share. I then received notification of a new member to this blog today, a person whose email address clearly identified them as a member of FDNY, or the New York Fire Department. My eyes welled up, and I was compelled to write to this person. As I wrote, those welled tears fell in thanks and remembrance for people who aided our fellow country people on September 11, 2001.
Many of the people who aided in first-response on September 11, 2001 are dead. Many of those who aided in first response, lived through the horror, and then went on to work for months respectfully clearing the World Trade Center - Ground Zero - area, are now becoming very ill with interstitial lung disease, COPD, and mesothelioma, not to mention the emotional issues involved.
They were told the air was safe. After the first days, few wore masks. Asbestos flew with each movement of the clean-up crew whose primary concern was not their own painful life and death later, but the immediacy of the job at hand - retrieving the remains of the fallen ones.
Today, many of those brave men and women are becoming our fallen ones. I have added FDNY to the list of member sites in the sidebar of this blog. Please visit. Buy their products, if you can. Remember that we all HEART New York, and honor the memory of those we lost by purchasing the wares being sold to aid those who worked valiantly to remediate a horrible wrong perpetrated on United States soil.
As a disclaimer, I live in Indiana. I have no ties to www.newyorkfire.com, nor their linked sites selling items to aid those who answered when the needs of America were very, very dire.
Posted in Thanks, Site News December 29th, 2006 by OptyMyst | No comments
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