No Firemen At Ground Zero This 9/11? -- Michael Burke, Wall Street Journal
Mayor Bloomberg says there's just not enough room to include them.
In our darkest hour, they gave us hope—the firefighters of September 11. In the chaos at the World Trade Center, the rigs pulled up, the men climbed out, retrieved their roll-up hoses and marched stalwart to the towers. Carrying nearly a hundred pounds of equipment they climbed the stairs; flight after flight after flight. A woman in the North Tower, descending from the 89th floor said, "When I saw the firemen I knew we would be all right."
When they arrived at the base of the towers, there were jumpers by the score. Two firefighters, terribly, were struck. "There is no other way to put it," an EMS who witnessed it said, "they exploded."
And still they went in.
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My Comment: I live in Canada .... so I am not 100% tuned into the complexities of American politics and the electorate who vote for politicians like Bloomberg. But from where I am standing .... if this story is true .... Mayor Bloomberg has become a sad case of someone who has lost touch with what is the soul of New York, and the electorate who voted him into power have forgotten who and what they were on 9/11.
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