The link to my letter published in The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, April 27, 2005 is broken so I will hand type the letter.
I write about betrayal which as a passionate artist here in NYC is a daily staple which is so "burningly true" today for me but it doesn't compare to 9-11 issues, read on....
I remember there was a letter above mine on another issue co-written by 3 senators and one had been a presidential candidate. It is like going to the opera to see Carmen and getting a box seat front and center, pretty amazing.
April 27, 2005
The Wall Street Journal
"Betrayal at Ground Zero"
Art is life and death for me, and being a passionate New York City artist, betrayal is a daily staple; however to read Ada Louise
Huxtable's In the Fray column "The Death of the Dream for the Ground Zero Site(Leisure & Arts, April 20) bemoaning the performing arts center being dropped from the $500 million fund raising campaign for the World Trade Center memorial and the museum doesn't even touch the surface of death and betrayal.
I feel numb when thinking of the massive murder, destruction and funerals from 9-11 and I want to scream in disbelief, anger and grief to learn our
FDNY which suffered the largest loss in our nation's history, is not acknowledged. Every front-line hero who rushed down Sept. 11 and gave the ultimate sacrifice should be recognized always at the site. Members of our
FDNY,
NYPD,
PAPD and EMS that died in the line of duty. Do the financial and cultural power brokers have no respect for this fact of history?
Who would have thought firehouses would be closed after Sept. 11, and that the heroes who came from them would become an economic causality as well.
Suzannah B. Troy
New York
April 27, 2008
To date there is no acknowledgement of the largest loss of our rescue workers in our city and nation's history at the WTC site. This fact of history is erased and yet the images of our rescue workers is indelibly part of all our memories from either seeing it first hand or repeated over and over on television and our computer screens.
To date the mayor refuses to give our rescue workers their rank at the memorial although they died with uniforms that said New York and their rank, the mayor says that would make them some how special. Please write and email the mayor and tell him this is the simple honor due and also to acknowledge the largest loss of rescue worker in our city and nation's history.
Our firehouses have been closed.
Our NYPD's starting salary has been lowered. The NYPD is the only police force in the USA that has had to deal with 2 destructive terror attacks so you would think they would be the highest paid and that the city would receive the most funding to protect ourselves....
There is so much more I have to say but my body and mind are exhausted and post 9-11 , I do have throat burn aka acid reflux. I am so tired....
p.s. To see photos and an example of what I call a living memorial shut down by the mayor please visit my blog posting
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2008/04/fire-patrol-closed-congrats-mayor-you.html
I am exhausted but I want to add Bobby and Joey who died at the Deutsche Bank toxic waste death trap down there should be added to the memorial. Many of those front line rescue workers were highly decorated serving in the military and for the city and yet this loss has been made invisible all these years at the site. There has also be the medical illnesses 9-11 and the struggle for medical support needed and heroes that died the slow death 9-11.
I also remember the sea of rescue workers that went down to the site every day including buses and I mean literally buses of NYPD cadets.
They did not hesitate but the mayor still hesitates all these years to give them the simple respect due.
