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Ground Zero Volunteers Flag - September Tribute Photo Directory

Ground Zero Volunteers Flag - September Tribute Photo Directory

FLAG DISPLAY EVENTS

2012-2019

Click the links below to see the corresponding event photos.

September Tribute 2012:

9/1/2012

9/22/2012

September Tribute 2013 (Coming Soon)

September Tribute 2014

9/5/2014

9/22/2014

September Tribute 2015

9/3/2015

9/19/2015

September Tribute 2016

9/1/2016

9/17/2016

September Tribute 2017

8/30/2017

9/17/2017

September Tribute 2018

8/30/2018

9/15/2018

September Tribute 2019

8/29/2019

9/11/2019

9/14/2019

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Horse Soldiers Visit the 9/11 Memorial & Museum

This article was originally posted on the official 9/11 Memorial & Museum website, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“Six soldiers from U.S. Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 595 – now known as the “horse soldiers” – visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum on Tuesday.

The soldiers, subjects of the new film “12 Strong: The Declassified Story of the Horse Soldiers,” were the first combat troops deployed to Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks. Because of the mountainous terrain in northern Afghanistan, the troops were provided with horses by Afghan tribes cooperating with the U.S. military. Many of the soldiers had never ridden on horseback before and were not expecting to fight cavalry-style on foreign soil.

Along with General Mulholland, the soldiers and their families received a special tour of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The group also visited “De Oppresso Liber,” an 18-foot bronze statue depicting a Green Beret soldier on horseback, which was dedicated in Liberty Park in September 2016.” - By 9/11 Memorial Staff

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A Torn 9/11 Flag is Repaired, One Loving Stitch at a Time

This article was originally posted on the official FOX NEWS website, written by Kathleen Foster of Fox News, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“In the days after the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, an American flag appeared on the side of a construction site overlooking Ground Zero in downtown Manhattan. A construction crew hung the 30-foot flag on 90 West Street as a symbol of hope for volunteers searching for survivors in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

However, the flag soon had the opposite effect. It kept getting caught on scaffolding broken by the collapse of the South Tower. Seeing an American flag ripped to shreds upset some of the workers below.

"It became an issue with some of the construction workers after a couple of weeks because the deterioration it was suffering by blowing in the wind against some collapsed scaffolding," says Charles Vitchers, a construction manager who was assessing the safety of buildings damaged by the collapse of the Twin Towers.

So, Vitchers had one of his crews take the flag down in October 2001. "It was shredded pretty good," he says.

The crew folded the flag and put it in a plastic bag. Vitchers put it in a shed outside a country home he owns in Pennsylvania, where it stayed until he took it out 7 years later. He laid it out on his lawn, and tried to put it back together like a puzzle, but couldn't.

Parts of both the stars and stripes were missing. The rest was in 13 pieces. The white stripes were gray with dust. The flag still smelled like smoke.

"When I took the flag out of the bag that it had been in," says Vitchers, "it brought back all of the smells that were prominent down here at Ground Zero."

Vitchers was going to have the flag honorably retired, until another disaster struck: a tornado wiped out most of Greensburg, Kan., in May 2007. In 2008, Vitchers traveled to Kansas with "New York Says Thank You," a group of New Yorkers touched by 9/11 who now travel the country helping other disaster victims. He brought the flag with him, and that's where The National 9/11 Flag started its journey back to life.

"We're letting local service heroes and communities around the country stitch it back together," says Jeff Parness, founder of New York Says Thank You Foundation and The National 911 Flag Oragnization.

It started when a group of women in Greensburg, Kan., saved flags that survived their town's tornado, and used them to patch the Ground Zero flag together, like a good old-fashioned quilting bee.

Now the flag is traveling cross-country, scheduled to hit all 50 states by the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks.

"There are so many things we will never be able to make whole again," says Parness, "but this we can make whole."

This Fourth of July, the flag will hit its 35th state, when it visits a church in North Carolina. In the past three years, the stars and stripes have started looking less like a patchwork quilt and more like its original, 13 striped self.

The flags that were originally used as patches have been replaced with matching pieces of red, white and blue taken from other retired flags.When it is complete, it will contain parts of flags from all 50 states.

"It is truly the fabric of America," says Parness.

One person at a time, makes one stitch at a time, as the flag crisscrosses the country. It has been on aircraft carriers and on the fields of ballparks. It has brought hope to other towns touched by tragedy, like Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Fort Hood, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Okla.

"When we're all done, we're going to have somewhere between 20,000, maybe 30,000, stitches," says Parness.

Veterans and other local heroes are nominated to take up the needle and thread first in special ceremonies. But anyone can line up to take a turn. Each zigzagged stitch made on the flag is as individual as the people who make them.

Kathryn Cross left more than a stitch….”

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Spirit of 9/11 keeps flying with heroic Hester flag

This article was originally posted on the official The Villager on September 12, 2013 written by Heather Dubin, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

Photos by Heather Dubin

“John Casalinuovo put on a harness to prepare to drop the 1,800-square-foot flag over the building’s side.

BY HEATHER DUBIN  |  The unfurling of an enormous American flag down the side of a six-story building in Chinatown tends to bring traffic to a halt. This happens annually on the corner of Hester and Mott. Sts. when John Casalinuovo, who volunteered at Ground Zero for nine months at the Salvation Army tent, leads a tradition he began on Sept. 9, 2002.

This year’s commemoration on Sept. 6 drew a large crowd of family, friends and fellow former Ground Zero volunteer workers to Casalinuovo’s building. The group was there to reconnect and watch the lowering of the 60-foot-by-30-foot, 94-pound American flag.

In an interview afterward, Casalinuovo spoke about the event, and his 9/11 experience.

“I was there an hour after the first plane hit, and Denise [his wife] was on the pile by 6:30 the next morning,” Casalinuovo said. On Sept. 12, he was there at 4:30 a.m., and worked on the pile for the first three days of the recovery effort. After the situation became more organized, Casalinuovo and his wife, Denise Lutey-Casalinuovo, worked at the Salvation Army tent until the site closed on May 31, 2002.

“We were together every day. We were the lucky ones,” Casalinuovo said, “We were able to go home and talk together.”

The bond between Ground Zero volunteers stems from a unique shared experience. Casalinuovo explained that volunteers focused their energies at the perimeter of the site, understood each other and got things done.

For the first year anniversary of the attack, the couple decided to have a gathering at their home. They considered their new good friends to be lifelong, and wanted to bring everyone together on a day they knew people would still have raw emotions.

“It was nine months that changed thousands of people’s lives,” Casalinuovo said.

For three months, beginning on Sept. 22, 2001, the original flag of this event flew over Ground Zero. The couple incorporated that flag into their celebration, but it has since been retired. According to Casalinuovo, the cotton was starting to wear. However, the polyester replacement holds better and folds like cotton.

Casalinuovo and about 16 men carefully hang the flag from the roof around the same time every year, the Thursday before Labor Day, and take it down the following Thursday after Sept. 11. The couple also hosts an open house on Sept. 11 for first responders, family and activity military.

The flag after being slowly unfurled from the building’s rooftop.

The first time they took the flag down in 2002, no one showed up.

“Now it’s a party when it comes down,” Casalinuovo said. “The cops are wonderful, the Fifth Precinct. Our firehouse lost five guys, they help me. It’s a really tight community...”

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3 retired FDNY firefighters die within 48 hour period

This article was originally posted on the official NY DAILY NEWS website, written by Thomas Tracy, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“Retired FDNY Lt. Timothy O’Neill died April 5, and Firefighter Kevin Lennon on April 4, both from 9/11-related cancers, and retired Fire Marshal Michael Andreachi died within the same period

Thomas Tracy New York Daily News

Three retired FDNY firefighters suffering from 9/11 illnesses died within 48 hours this week as the number of those succumbing to lethal toxins at Ground Zero continues to swell, officials and 9/11 survivor advocates said Saturday.

Retired FDNY Lt. Timothy O’Neill died April 5, and Firefighter Kevin Lennon on April 4, both from 9/11-related cancers — nearly 18 years after responding to the terror attacks.

With the skeleton of the World Trade Center twin towers in the background, New York City firefighters work amid debris on Cortlandt St. after the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

A third retired FDNY member, Fire Marshal Michael Andreachi, also died within the same time period, officials said.

Andreachi, 78, had retired from the FDNY before 9/11, but joined the bucket brigades at Ground Zero. While he had a 9/11-related illness and was enrolled win the World Trade Center monitoring program, his death hadn’t been officially linked to his illness by Saturday, officials said.

“The incredible bravery and selfless service displayed at the World Trade Center continues to take the lives of far too many of our members," FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Saturday. "This is a painful reality for our Department.”

Scores of firefighters are expected to attend Lennon’s funeral Tuesday on Long Island at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Greenlawn. O’Neill’s funeral is scheduled Friday at Sacred Heart Church in Staten Island.

Lennon, 54, spent most of his career at Ladder Company 175, which served Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, members of the Uniformed Firefighters Association said.

“It’s another sad loss accredited to Sept. 11,” UFA President Gerard Fitzgerald told the Daily News. “We constantly have members in hospice or in the hospice an dealing with serious cancers.”

As he grieves for Lennon, Fitzgerald also marked the passing of O’Neill, whom he often played against in firehouse softball games.

“He was an umpire for a few years,” Fitzgerald fondly remembered. “He was a good guy, a proud firefighter with a real competitive spirit. We enjoyed our battles on the field.”

Attempts to reach the firefighters respective families were unsuccessful Saturday.

Their deaths come as 101 survivors who either responded to, or lived and worked near Ground Zero following the terror attacks have passed away from a 9/11 illness since September, survivor advocate John Feal said.

That’s a rate of about 12 a month — or three a week.

Feal said at the current rate, the number of 9/11 illness deaths by September 2019 will either match or exceed 163 — the total accumulated between Sept. 1, 2017, and last Sept. 1, which is considered the highest World Trade Center yearly death toll since the terror attacks.

“This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a cluster of people passing,” Feal said. “We can go two weeks without one and then get four in three days. But they always average out to about one every 2.7 days.”

Feal said that reporting these deaths “is like shooting myself in the foot.”

“It’s painful for me, especially since I helped some of these people personally,” he said. “It doesn’t get any easier, but it’s our responsibility to tell the story of 9/11, which hasn’t ended.”

Feal and other 9/11 health care advocates have turned 2019 into the year of the WTC survivor. Since January, he and a team of 9/11 survivors have repeatedly descended on Washington, D.C. to encourage legislators to sign onto a bipartisan bill that would fully fund and extend the $7.3 federal Victims Compensation Fund. The fund provides monetary payouts to those stricken with a 9/11 illness to help offset living and medical expenses.

The fund is slated to expire in 2020, but so many victims have been requesting compensation, the fund is now expected to run out money even before the deadline.

In February, the fund compensated for the expected shortfall by amending its award payouts so those currently applying could receive less than those who applied a year ago for the same illness.

It’s estimated that 90,000 first responders showed up at the WTC in the aftermath of the attack. An additional 400,000 survivors lived and worked in the area at the time.

More than 180 FDNY employees have died of illnesses from the toxic dust at Ground Zero since the terror attack, when 343 members of the department were killed.

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©2019 New York Daily News”

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Official Involved in Rebuilding World Trade Center Allegedly Took $17,000 in Bribes, Including Knicks and Mets World Series Tickets

This article was originally posted on the official NBC News website, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“A construction official involved in rebuilding the World Trade Center is accused of taking more than $17,000 in bribes, including Knicks and Mets World Series tickets, in exchange for giving confidential information to a contractor and hiring unqualified people with family or personal ties as electricians.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced charges Wednesday against 58-year-old James Luckie and two former managers at an electrical contractor on the project.

It wasn't immediately known if the men had lawyers who could comment on their behalf. If convicted, they face a mandatory state prison sentence of at least 15 years.

According to an indictment, bribes to Luckie included: tickets to 21 Knicks games, tickets and a limo to see the Mets in the 2015 World Series and a $3,850 Florida golf trip.”

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9-11 first responders finally get their own tribute at Ground Zero

This article was originally posted on the official FOX NEWS website, written by Rick Leventhal, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

NEW YORK -- About 17 and a half years after the 9/11 terror attack on the World Trade Center, first responders are finally getting their own tribute at the Memorial Plaza on the Ground Zero site.

Called the Memorial Glade, it’s a path winding through the southwest corner of the plaza, lined with six granite monoliths, each weighing between 13 and 18 tons, hand-chiseled at the Rock of Ages Manufacturing Company in Vermont.

The stones are inlaid and bound with strips of steel salvaged from the Twin Towers, and the stones are designed to point skyward, symbolizing strength and determination, according to the designer, who said they were crafted to look bruised but not broken, representing the strength of human spirit.

Tens of thousands of police officers, firefighters, federal agents, paramedics and civilian volunteers spent days, weeks and months working on the pile, searching for victims, clearing rubble and debris, and restoring order to the chaos, while breathing toxic fumes, leading to thousands of serious illnesses and deaths.

9/11 MEMORIAL GLADE HONORS RESCUE, RECOVERY WORKERS AFFECTED BY TOXIN EXPOSURE

At the dedication ceremony, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the first responders risked their own lives to try to find survivors.

“For some, the end of the recovery was the beginning of even more difficult journey of sickness and disease. Tragically, not all who labored so valiantly for their city and country in the aftermaths of the attacks survived.”

One of those deeply affected was now-retired firefighter Rob Serra, who graduated the FDNY academy the day before 9/11 and spent several days at the scene, his first real job with the department.

9/11 FAMILY MEMBERS WANT FBI TO RELEASE NAMES OF THOSE WHO ALLEGEDLY HELPED AL QAEDA FROM INSIDE US

He developed throat polyps and then a series of debilitating illnesses that left him in a wheelchair, fighting for his life. He said he doesn’t regret his actions, that he was doing the job he was hired to do. But he admits he would’ve liked a better mask to protect himself, and appreciates the Glades message.

“I think it’s important because we said we’d never forget. I mean on September 12 the sense of patriotism and love for this country was palpable. And over the last 17 years, we’re still fighting for our benefits in Washington.”

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The Glade was dedicated on Thursday, the 17th anniversary of the official conclusion of search-and-recovery efforts and is now open to the public, serving as a compelling reminder of selfless heroism and sacrifice and the struggles and challenges so many continue to face.”

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9/11 Memorial Glade dedicated to those sickened at Ground Zero

This article was originally posted on the official Eyewitness News website, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- A new addition to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum was dedicated Thursday to all who are suffering or have died from exposure to toxins in the aftermath of 9/11. Governor Andrew Cuomo and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke at the dedication of the 9/11 Memorial Glade, which includes a pathway flanked by six large stone monoliths ranging from 13 to 18 tons that are inlaid with World Trade Center steel. The stones point skyward to symbolize strength and determination through adversity, and they were designed to look bruised but not broken to symbolize the strength of the human spirit. The memorial pays tribute to the courage and selflessness of people who rushed to Ground Zero to help after the attacks, including police, firefighters, all the responders, and people from around the country. It is located at Liberty and West Streets, just south of the reflecting pools. The Glade design was developed by the Memorial's original architects, Michael Arad and Peter Walker. The total construction cost for the project was $5 million, and former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart helped lead major fundraising efforts. Thursday also marks the 17th anniversary of the end of rescue, recovery and relief efforts back in May of 2002.”

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How 7 World Trade Center beat the odds

This article was originally posted on the official NYPOST website, written by Steve Cuozzo, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“It was the little lease that could — and now, the deal that proved to be the turning point in downtown’s commercial rebirth after 9/11 is getting a second wind.

Sources said the New York Academy of Sciences and Silverstein properties will renew the academy’s lease for 40,000 square feet at Seven World Trade Center for 15 years.

What’s the big deal about a modest-size renewal by a nonprofit organization in a tower full of much larger, profit-driven tenants such as Moody’s and law firm Wilmer Hale?

In fact, the academy’s original lease, signed in 2005, turned out to be momentous — although nobody knew it at the time. It was the first commitment at the 1.7 million-square foot tower that was widely condemned for “glutting” the market. The academy was one of only two tenants Silverstein had on board when 7WTC opened its doors on May 23, 2006.

In light of today’s thriving area office market, it’s easy to forget how detested and feared 7WTC was at the time. It began to rise in 2003, when New Yorkers were consumed by the issue of how the devastated World Trade Center site should be rebuilt.

Many in real estate, government and the media loudly opposed reconstruction of the original complex’s 14 million square feet of office space. They were especially horrified that Silverstein started building 7WTC without a single pre-signed tenant.

Then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg ripped him for asking $50 per square foot when the “going rate” downtown was $35 per square feet — ignoring that most nearby office buildings were functionally obsolete. (The asking rent on the New York Academy of Sciences space renewal today is in the mid-$80s.)

Competing landlords and real estate brokers sniped that Silverstein was an insurance-milking cheapskate. New York Magazine, unaware that brand-new office towers don’t usually fill up overnight, called 7WTC “Larry’s 52-story problem.”

The New York Times, a partner with Silverstein competitor Bruce Ratner in the company’s new headquarters project, shredded Silverstein relentlessly. So did the Daily News, whose owner, Mort Zuckerman, was also the head of another major Silverstein rival, Boston Properties.

Silverstein stuck to his guns. Larger tenants such as Moody’s followed the academy. The idea that major companies would never move to the “Ground Zero” area or anywhere downtown was exposed as baloney.

Had 7WTC stood empty for long, as its detractors predicted, neither of its larger cousins, One and Four World Trade Center, would have been built. Condé Nast wouldn’t have been able to take the plunge on its game-changing move downtown.

And it all started with a modest lease by an organization few New Yorkers had ever heard of.”

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9/11 Memorial Glade Opens to the Public

This article was originally posted on the official NY1 website, written by Dean Meminger, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“By Dean Meminger PUBLISHED 7:12 PM ET May. 30, 2019

With the playing of "Taps," the 9/11 Memorial Glade opened to the public Thursday. It is a place to honor and remember the tens of thousands who have died or are battling illnesses after being exposed to the toxic debris and dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center. 

Sal Turturici is a former EMS worker battling for his life. 

"A cancer that would be in the brain or the thyroid was found in my colon. Now, it's in my liver. So that is something that doesn't happen. Because I was down here," Turturici said.

The Memorial Glade is a pathway with six granite monoliths that appear to break out of the ground and point towards the sky.

Embedded in the granite is steel from the Twin Towers.

For nine months, search and recovery personnel worked at this site, not knowing they were breathing poisoned air.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg reflected on the pain and suffering many have endured.

"For some, the end of the recovery was the beginning of an even more difficult journey of sickness and disease," Bloomberg said. "Tragically, not all who labored so valiantly for their city and country in the aftermaths after the attacks survived."

Nearly 18 years after the attacks brought down the Twin Towers, almost 50,000 people have been certified by the government as sick, a number that continues to grow. They include first responders, construction workers, volunteers and even those who lived, worked or went to school in the neighborhood.

Firefighter Ray Pfeifer died two years ago. He was a leader in getting health care for sick first responders.

His widow, Karen, says he was truly dedicated. 

"Searching and digging at Ground Zero without being asked, without being told and without thinking about the consequences," 

Comedian Jon Stewart has been a major advocate for 9/11 health benefits and helped to raise funds for this memorial.

"Look, no matter what we do, it's not necessarily going to solve their grief or their suffering, but whatever it is that can be done to make it so that their families don't have that compounded," he said.

For many of those battling illnesses, they know that one day, this will be the location where their family and friends will come to remember them.

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Officials demand permanent funding for 9/11 victims compensation to stem 'escalating crisis'

This article was originally posted on the official amny.com website, written by Lauren Cook, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“Without permanent funding, more than 90,000 9/11 first responders and survivors across the country will be left without financial assistance, according to officials. 

Politicians and advocates rallied in lower Manhattan Wednesday in support of a federal bill that would permanently authorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act.

The rally, organized by City Council members I. Daneek Miller and Margaret Chin, was held across from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum a day before the 17-year anniversary of the end to recovery operations at Ground Zero.

“With more individuals coming forward with related illnesses, we cannot turn our backs on these survivors,” said Chin, who represents lower Manhattan. “With the funding for this critical program set to expire next year, it is incumbent upon elected representatives to ensure our country delivers on this promise.”

Sponsored by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the Never Forget the Heroes Act would guarantee money for the Victim Compensation Fund through 2090. It also would make several amendments to the fund, including an extension of claim submissions to October 2089 and reimbursements to claimants whose payments were slashed due to insufficient funding.

In February, officials running the fund had warned they were running dangerously low on cash and that payments to those suffering from illnesses would be drastically cut. The fund was last authorized in 2015, but since then almost $5 billion of the allotted $7.375 billion has already been doled out to more than 21,000 people suffering from cancers and other illnesses linked to the toxic rubble at Ground Zero, officials had said in February.

City Councilman I. Daneek Miller speaks during Wednesday's rally across from the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan. Photo Credit: Rush Perez

Without permanent funding, more than 90,000 9/11 first responders and survivors across the country will be left without financial assistance, according to officials. Since 9/11, more than 2,000 FDNY members and nearly 1,000 NYPD personnel have retired due to illnesses linked to the toxic air at Ground Zero. Hundreds more FDNY and NYPD members have died.

“The notion that the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund could one day cease to exist is unimaginable,” said Miller, chair of the City Council Civil Service and Labor Committee. “The escalating crisis of sick and injured seeking help through the VCF to address their health needs have grown beyond the program’s capacity and must be resolved quickly and definitively.”

Maloney, who also attended the rally, said the number of people to die of 9/11-related illnesses could soon eclipse the 2,997 lives lost on the day of the attacks.

“We vowed to never forget the first responders, survivors, and families who risked their lives and made incredible sacrifices for our country,” she said. “While we made health care permanent, the compensation fund is running out of funds. We need to make sure these heroes never have to go without the support they need.”

Established in 2001, the Victim Compensation Fund first gave more than $7 billion to the families of those killed in the 9/11 terror attacks as well as thousands of survivors who were injured. The fund closed in 2004 but was reopened in 2011 with the signing of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.

The Never Forget the Heroes Act will likely to be brought up in the House Judiciary Committee next month and is expected to be approved by the House of Representatives. It will then go through a hearing and be put to a vote in the Senate.

Miller and Chin introduced a resolution in the City Council Wednesday calling on Congress to pass the legislation.

By Lauren Cook

Lauren joined amNY.com as a news editor in 2016. Previously, she worked as a web producer at CBS New York and News 12.”

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9/11 1st Responders & Volunteers...Where Are They Now?

It’s been 17 years since 9/11/2001 changed the world forever…

People from all walks of life “answered the call” to help during our darkest hours…where are they now?

This video is just a taste of the full movie, but it conveys a strong message of how September 11 affected those who responded. The people depicted in this film are Ground Zero Responders & Volunteers. Their reactions during these interviews was recorded back in the mid 2000’s, not long after the attacks. Though short, this trailer is emotionally stirring and evokes genuine questions about the nature of humanity at the most challenging times.

This trailer was originally posted on the official 9/12 From Chaos To Community website, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community and rest of the world. To purchase the film, please visit their website.

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9/11 Memorial Will Host Memorial Glade Dedication and May 30th Commemoration Ceremonies

This article was originally posted on the official 9/11 Memorial & Museum website, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“The 9/11 Memorial & Museum will host commemorative activities in recognition of the 17th anniversary of the end of the historic rescue, recovery and relief efforts at Ground Zero.

On May 30, 2019, we will unveil and formally dedicate the 9/11 Memorial Glade, a new tribute on the 9/11 Memorial plaza that will honor all who are suffering or have died from exposure to hazards and toxins in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks: responders and recovery workers, survivors and community members. The Glade will also recognize the tremendous capacity of the human spirit exemplified during rescue and recovery efforts at all three attack sites, as well as the selflessness and resolve, perseverance and courage of those who came to help and to heal.

We invite you to gather with us near the Glade, in the center of the Memorial plaza, beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 30. The dedication ceremony will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m. The Glade will open to the public immediately following the dedication ceremony. To help us in our planning efforts, please RSVP to rsvp@911memorial.org with your name and number of guests.

As always, rescue and recovery workers are welcome to visit the Museum during this time with complimentary admission for two guests. If you have not yet joined the Rescue and Recovery Workers Registry, registration is required to reserve your complimentary tickets.” - - 9/11 Memorial & Museum

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Join Us For Memorial Glade Dedication and May 30th Commemoration

9/11 Memorial Glade Dedication Ceremony

This article was originally posted on the official 9/11 Memorial & Museum website, we are simply sharing it raise awareness among our 9/11 Community.

“On May 30, 2019, a permanent and historic modification to the 9/11 Memorial will be formally dedicated. Henceforth to be known as the 9/11 Memorial Glade, this new pathway, flanked by large stone monoliths, on the Memorial will honor in perpetuity the ongoing sacrifice of rescue, recovery and relief workers, and survivors and members of the broader lower Manhattan community, who are suffering and dying from illnesses caused by exposure to hazards and toxins in the aftermath of the attacks. The Glade will also recognize the tremendous capacity of the human spirit exemplified during rescue and recovery efforts at all three attack sites in the selflessness and resolve, perseverance and courage of those who came to help and to heal.

We invite you to gather with us near the Glade, in the center of the Memorial plaza, beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 30. The dedication ceremony will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m. The Glade will open to the public immediately following the dedication ceremony. To help us in our planning efforts, please RSVP to rsvp@911memorial.org with your name and number of guests.

Additional Events and Programs

In recognition of the 17th anniversary of the end of the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and relief operation—May 30, 2002—the 9/11 Memorial & Museum will also host dedicated programs and commemorative activities from Thursday, May 30, to Sunday, June 2, 2019.

As always, rescue and recovery workers are welcome to visit the Museum during this time with complimentary admission for two guests. If you have not yet joined the Rescue and Recovery Workers Registry, registration is required to reserve your complimentary tickets.

THURSDAY, MAY 30 “Hallelujah”: A May 30th Tribute The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in partnership with “Choir! Choir! Choir!” and ALL ARTS, will present a special community event to coincide with the 9/11 Memorial Glade dedication. The evening program will pay tribute to those who are sick or have died because of 9/11 illnesses, their families and all those who responded when our nation needed it most.

Choir! Choir! Choir! (C!C!C!) exists to celebrate music and push the boundaries between practice and performance, artist and audience, offering therapeutic benefits with the ultimate side effect: a powerful community. We invite you to gather with Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman, the founders of C!C!C!, in the Museum’s Foundation Hall to take part in a choral arrangement of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” with singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright. 

All are welcome and no singing experience is necessary. You’ll get a song sheet at the door, and Daveed and Nobu will teach you the vocal arrangement. You will then perform "Hallelujah" with Wainwright in Foundation Hall, and then proceed to the newly dedicated Memorial Glade for a final performance. ALL ARTS, a member of the WNET family of public media organizations, will film the program for future airing on its free broadcast channel and streaming platform.

Join us for this special program at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are complimentary but required, and can be reserved here.

FRIDAY, MAY 31 12 p.m. Project Rebirth Short: Joe This film will play in the Museum's Auditorium, and tells the story of Joe, a NYPD detective sergeant, who was tapped to supervise the emotionally-draining search for human remains among the World Trade Center wreckage in sifting operations based on nearby Staten Island. 

This film contains explicit content, including disturbing images that may not be suitable for children. Viewer discretion is advised. 

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 Drop-in activities in the Education Center are tied to specific artifacts and themes in the Museum. Meant to spark conversations between children and their caregivers, our current activities offer age-appropriate entry-points into the history of the World Trade Center, 9/11 and its aftermath. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Drop-in activities on this day include:

The Shield The Shield, by New York City artist Red Grooms, depicts the variety of workers that came to Ground Zero to help after the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11. Rescue and recovery workers, first responders, construction workers, politicians in hard-hats and military personnel are all shown performing important jobs at Ground Zero. The scene is enclosed inside the shape of an officer’s shield.

Visitors who take part in this activity will observe The Shield and then use modeling clay to sculpt the shape of one of the figures they identify in the artwork. After they create their clay figure, they will then color it using markers. This activity allows visitors to consider why so many people came to help at Ground Zero after 9/11, and also encourages them to reflect on what they can do during times of tragedy to help in their own communities.

“Dear Hero” Postcards After 9/11, thousands of letters came to New York City from children all over the country to thank police officers, firefighters and recovery workers for their work. Many began with the words “Dear Hero.” In this activity, visitors will have the chance to do the same—to create postcards to say thank you to someone in their community that has demonstrated courage and bravery in order to help someone in need or to protect the country they live in.

Dogs of 9/11 Exploration Families will explore the artifacts on display in the exhibition "Dogs of 9/11" in the Education Center Lobby to learn about the hundreds of four-legged responders that came to help after 9/11. Using these artifacts as inspiration, participants will decorate a paw print with words, pictures and symbols of thanks and encouragement, which they can leave with us or give to a service dog or handler in their community. 

THURSDAY, MAY 30 – SUNDAY, JUNE 2 The 9/11 Memorial & Museum proudly presents a projection of images captured during the rescue and recovery operations, and from 9/11 health advocacy efforts, displayed on the Timescape wall in the Museum’s Foundation Hall.” - 9/11 Memorial & Museum

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