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U.S. NEWS Friday 31 May 2019

New memorial area dedicated

at World Trade Center site

By KAREN MATTHEWS signed the memorial glade. called the memorial glade
Associated Press Its massive stone slabs were “a beautiful place for our
NEW YORK (AP) — Family shaped by two craftsmen heroes.”
members of recovery work- in Barre, Vermont. Pfeifer said that after the
ers who died after digging “Today we are dedicating 2001 terrorist attacks, her
through smoldering ruins this memorial glade to all husband “spent the next
joined city officials Thursday who became sick or died nine months searching and
at a dedication ceremony because of causes related digging at ground zero
for a new section of the to the attacks and to all without being asked, with-
Sept. 11 memorial at the the men and women who out being told, and without
World Trade Center in low- took part in the rescue and thinking about the conse-
er Manhattan. They were recovery effort that ended quences. But there were
joined by recovery workers on this date 17 years ago,” consequences. There was
who themselves are ill. former Mayor Michael illness and pain and death John Stewart talks with Alice Greenwald, CEO of the National
The 9/11 Memorial Glade Bloomberg, the chairman and for Ray that meant his September 11 Memorial Museum, before the start of a dedication
honors rescue and recov- of the National September guys and their families were ceremony in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2019
ery workers who were sick- 11 Memorial and Museum, in trouble.”After the cer- Associated Press
ened or died after respond- told the hundreds gath- emony, attendees placed spent weeks working with- and toxins present during
ing to the Sept. 11 attacks. ered on the plaza for the flowers and Mass cards on out proper respiratory pro- the cleanup. One study
The grassy clearing on the ceremony. the stone slabs. tection as fires continued to published last year found
southwest corner of the “We have a duty to care Freyda Markow, who said burn and later developed that overall mortality rates
8-acre (3-hectare) plaza for those who need it and she volunteered at the respiratory and digestive- among rescue and recov-
includes a path flanked to honor the memory of trade center site with the system ailments potentially ery workers haven’t been
with six huge, sloping stone those who died. The me- Salvation Army and the linked to inhaled and swal- elevated. But researchers
structures made of granite morial glade helps us to ful- Red Cross, wore photos of lowed dust. Over the years, have raised concern about
slabs inlaid with steel recov- fill that duty,” he said. firefighters who died years more have been diag- an unusual number of sui-
ered from the fallen trade Caryn Pfeifer, whose hus- after responding to the at- nosed with other illnesses cides among first respond-
center towers. band, firefighter Ray Pfeifer, tacks around her neck. including cancer. ers and more deaths than
The larger memorial’s origi- was an advocate for trade “For them 9/11 was never Researchers continue to expected from brain can-
nal architects, Michael center responders before over,” Markow said. “It’ll study whether there is a cers and non-Hodgkin’s
Arad and Peter Walker, de- he died of cancer in 2017, never be over.” Many link between those illnesses lymphoma.q