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Told To Wear Their Respirators

JenniferJenniferOld Faithful
REPORTER: Today, former construction worker John Yannucci says, yes, he knew he should have been using his respirator more, but it was impossible.

YANNUCCI: Most of the time the respiratory mask is off, 'cause I gotta lotta talking to do. I gotta talk to the foremen. I gotta talk to the men. If I put on the respirator and I go like this [muffles voice], can you hear me? 'I need you over on the south side, I need you over . . . ' So I had to take it off. A lot of people had to take it off and put it on and then take it off and put it on. Meanwhile, you got particles in the air. We don't see it. But the city and the state said the air was good, so we really didn't care.


Adams was known as a worksite scold. One cartoon drawn by workers shows him on a soapbox, wearing an Arab head-dress and preaching jihad against people who failed to wear their respirators.

ADAMS: We certainly were not remiss in advising them. We were not remiss in telling them. We were not remiss in even providing them. We had thousands and thousands of respirators. There was never a situation in which people couldn't get a respirator. Everybody knew about it. It was all over the site, with dozens, if not hundreds of people going out there harping and haranguing.


http://www.wnyc.org/articles/w...ty-after-911-part-2/
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JenniferJenniferOld Faithful
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Originally posted by HARLEY FLSTS:
I would rather pay them money for medical care than the idiot in charge giving money to illegals, giving illegals rights to sue ICE with government funds and so on.
Of course. Who wants to fund illegals? It's not about that at all. It's about people saying others didn't care about these workers and just "sent them in" without worrying about their health. There are always different sides to a story. No one has told these workers to "drop dead".
O No!O No!Old Faithful
I'll never know for sure if the cancer that killed my husband was related to his work at the site, but I DO know he wore a respirator when he COULD. There were times when he couldn't. Sometimes he had to crawl or put his head into such tight spaces a respirator wouldn't fit. And yes, it was almost impossible to communicate with a respirator on.

All of these people are hero's, just as much as the firefighters who went in that day and died as the buildings collapsed. My husband didn't CARE that he was putting his own life in danger. He needed to help, and that's all that mattered to him. He was a wonderful man, just as all of these guys were. They didn't HAVE to volunteer. They did it because it was the right thing to do.

We should all be thanking them, not questioning them.
JuanHuntJuanHuntHall of Famer
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Originally posted by O No!:
I'll never know for sure if the cancer that killed my husband was related to his work at the site, but I DO know he wore a respirator when he COULD. There were times when he couldn't. Sometimes he had to crawl or put his head into such tight spaces a respirator wouldn't fit. And yes, it was almost impossible to communicate with a respirator on.

All of these people are hero's, just as much as the firefighters who went in that day and died as the buildings collapsed. My husband didn't CARE that he was putting his own life in danger. He needed to help, and that's all that mattered to him. He was a wonderful man, just as all of these guys were. They didn't HAVE to volunteer. They did it because it was the right thing to do.

We should all be thanking them, not questioning them.


Godspeed to your husband. I am humbled by his sacrifice. And yours.
JenniferJenniferOld Faithful
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Originally posted by b50m:
There are at least three sides. The left, the right, and the truth. Smiler

Se if this link works.

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/w...ty-after-911-part-2/
That was kinda my point. NO one sent these men in to just die. AND no one now is telling them to do that. To claim that people don't care is ridiculous. One problem I have with democrats is they will never admit they're wrong about anything. They want people to believe Republicans are evil and only work against others. It's insane. In Area 51 when a group of workers became ill they couldn't get information about what they'd been exposed to. The doctors said IF they knew what they were fighting they would have a better idea of how to help. This group sued to get the information released. Bill Clinton signed an executive order PREVENTING the release of that information. So lawsuit dead, workers dying, no idea what they were exposed to. But hey, Bill Clinton is a democrat, so he could tell those workers to "drop dead".

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