Ok something I'm not sure if came up, but should...
Many of us knew of the issues with the WTC site disaster cleanup and the poor rescue workers at the site. We figured it would take a few months to a few years for symptoms to being to show... guess we were wrong.
Hundreds were told there was no asbestos, there was no risk, there was nothing that was harmful in the air... hundreds were lied to. Now we've got the second horrible aspect of this attack, the lives of rescue workers who will either get very sick or die from the pollutants in the air while they worked to save lives.
These people would still have handled themselves the same way even if they knew they risked lung cancer and worse, this is what made them heroes, they faced a situation which they could have easily turned from and stood their ground. (How many stories did we hear of people who refused to go into the buildings to rescue people???)
All this and some people still have the balls to say these people were just "doing their jobs." Well perhaps I've been wrong this whole time... in fact, they [b]WERE[/b] just doing their jobs... but their job is to be a hero every day...
More info on the medical issues now surfacing at the links below...
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/29/gupta.syndrome.otsc/index.html[/url]
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/29/rec.wtc.cough/index.html[/url]