FDNY memorial, revisiting 9-11

To all those that fell and to all those that carry on -- click on the photo above to read it...




Dear Readers:   I am out of my mind with tiredness and stress, moving and healing from trauma not 9-11 but I want to show you some quick photos I took on my iphone.

If you search my blog you can find my letter "Betrayal at Ground Zero" in the Wall Street Journal which is even more true today but the WSJ did not keep a link to my letter.

To date as far as I know the mayor refuses to give the largest loss of rescue workers their rank and in one photo you get a hint of what was a larger crowd that gives you a hint of the millions of people that have visited the site and saw either first hand or on the news globally the images of rescue workers running in to the building but if you visit the site they are not honored with their names, rank and dept because the mayor and John Whitehouse ex Goldman Sachs chair where at least 2 power brokers concerned with so how making them special -- these are 2 guys that are treated "special" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Many were highly decorated with in their dept and serving our in the military.  Some like Capt. Pat Brown were highly decorated serving in Viet Nam and came back with a lot of soul pain I am guessing and were treated shabbily and who would have imagined would be treated more so by the city, you see the mayor has hesitated for years but they did not hesitate for a moment.

To the millions that visit -- yes please know the heroism was tremendous --- people refusing to leave handicapped friends and more -- just want to burst in to tears but I am in Apple using their wifi, honoring the largest loss of rescue workers in NYC and in the USA's history on the fence should have been a fact of history honored always at the site from the day of.

I am Jewish but I remember the big cross at the site from way back when.  I remember the site when it was blocked off by the police and the military.  The soldiers shipped out and said goodbye, many slept in the parks around the site.   

I am just mentally tired today, still this sensation of not being able to fully exhale, inhale, organize myself, find my things like my Gram's ring that was either stolen or lost in the move I made under terrible duress.

I didn't take the best pictures but I want to give you a visual if you haven't been down recently and a reminder there are a lot of problems down there, a lot happened post 9-11 that are shocks including Bobby and James taking the Express to Heaven post 9-11 because of 9-11 in the toxic death dump at the site....

have to quiet my mind and think positive thoughts now.

I confronted the mayor on the steps of city hall about the "old ps 64 building" and when he and I had didn't agree on NYU he started to walk away and I GOT TO YELL HONOR THE FIRE POLICE AND EMS at the WTC site.   At least he didn't have me arrest it and was half decent.  I will never forget the conversation I had with Amanda Burden about St. Ann's.   He most keep her around because she makes him seem warm and cuddly.

Email the mayor and share your thoughts...I don't bother much anymore.

ps I do wish the artist for the outstanding memorial would be commissioned by NYU to make one for the Triangle shirt waist fire so people could not walk by and be ignorant of the horror -- the death toll on the side walk were they walk....I have written about this on the blog as well.