这是当我们“永不忘记”时，我们忘记了

Another year has come and gone, and we firefighters have paused to remember the brave 343 who gave their lives on that spectacularly horrific morning in Manhattan. We re-live the nightmare by peering at images from that crisp morning, reading gut-wrenching stories from survivor families, and admiring the ceremonies, plaques, and walls of remembrance.

It is right that we do this.

而且，即使没有T恤，头盔贴纸和看似折叠的死记硬背咒语，我们都会“永远不会忘记？”，这一点并不是很明显。

但是，我们当中有些人在这里错过了什么吗？

We lost 343 on September 11, 2001. But are you aware that the number lost keeps growing every day to the point where we have lost over another thousand precious lives of first responders who went to work at the World Trade Center immediately following the disaster?

实际上，截至2003年8月，在随后的几天和几周内，与他们的英勇行为相关的癌症又丧生了1,140人的生命。我的数学将从9/11到上个月的早晨到1,483的跑步总数。

和计数。

从昨天的一篇文章中纽约每日新闻：

“Sadly enough, I am here just two months, and I have identified a dozen new cancer cases, and我还有另外25名患者，他们的诊断测试结果正在等待。”-蒂娜·恩格尔（Tina Engel），北岸医院WTC诊所的肿瘤学护士

在所有炒作中，我们从阴谋理论家声称我们的政府负责9月11日的袭击中听到了所有的炒作，对我们联邦政府对随后的所有疾病和死亡的责任的责任毫无意义。

您可能还记得像我生动的那样，在塔楼跌落后的几天内，前EPA负责人克里斯蒂·惠特曼（Christie Whitman）宣布曼哈顿的空气“安全呼吸”，水是“安全喝的”。作为一名受过训练的消防员，我觉得这是B *******。

我们现在知道那是。

您可能会惊讶地知道，第一响应者被命令不使用曼哈顿的防护装备，但是在五角大楼，任何不穿全部Hazmat防护服的人都被订购了坠机现场。

“误导通信通过公民领袖d their failure to insist on respiratory protection in the days, weeks and months after the initial rescue operation ended undoubtedly contributed and will continue to contribute to sickness in the rescue and recovery workers and in the citizens of Lower Manhattan,"-Dr Philip J. Landrigan, chairman of the Department of Community and Preventative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Mount Sinai has screened more than 25,000 Ground Zero responders for illnesses suspected of being related to the dust and treated many of them.

即使在零地面及其周围登记了前所未有的二恶英水平的测试后，联邦官员也选择不发出警报。

二恶英是一种可能导致癌症，损害免疫系统并导致发育问题的污染物，当通过食物吸收时最有害。但是吸入时也会造成伤害。

OSHA在内部讨论了令人震惊的测试结果：“刚收到了在WTC（我相信的羽流中或附近）取样的样本，” OSHA员工在2001年10月的一封电子邮件中写道，该机构的管理员约翰·亨肖（John Henshaw）在一封电子邮件中写道。“结果很高……EPA说这是他们见过的最高水平之一。”二恶英的水平比正常水平高约1000倍。

尽管在我的脑海中应该对某人承担责任，但在我的脑海中应承担任何责任 - 对于数百人的疾病和死亡，这并没有帮助成千上万仍在为当天做出的决定而受苦的人。

可以做什么？

We need to pay more attention to those thousands of first responders who performed admirably and are just now paying the price. They did what they thought was right. The horror that hit us 12 years ago did not end when the Towers came tumbling down, nor did it end every year we toll the bells, read the names, cry the tears.

It keeps on killing us. The attack on America continues to this day.

It is tragic that more of us Americans, more of us Brothers and Sisters, aren’t screaming loudly in support for these forgotten victims at the very time we mourn our dead from that day.

我们归功于他们 - 的确，我们归功于美国人 - 超越数字超过343的数字，并意识到我们大多数人几年后的兄弟和姐妹的价格继续由数百人（也许是成千上万的）支付认为已经结束了。

It is right that we do this.

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To find out what you can do, please check out:

Firefighter Cancer Foundation

Friends of Firefighters

Firefighter Cancer Support Network

9/11 Day