{"id":967,"date":"2006-04-12T10:11:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/its_hard_to_forget_when_in_some_ways_its_still_happening.html"},"modified":"2006-04-12T10:11:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T18:11:48","slug":"its_hard_to_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/its_hard_to_for.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s Hard To Forget When In Some Ways It’s Still Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"

The problem with rushing to build so<\/a> many<\/a> unsatisfyingly<\/a> small<\/a> (in their scope and artistic vision) 9\/11<\/a> memorials<\/a> is that brave people worthy of our memory are still dying from the attacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An autopsy of a retired NYPD detective confirmed yesterday what his family and fellow cops long suspected — that James Zadroga’s death was “directly related” to the Ground Zero cleanup.
\nThe stunning findings are believed to mark the first time the death of a cleanup worker has been officially tied to the aftermath of the terror attacks.<\/p>\n

“It is felt with a reasonable degree of medical certainty that the cause of death in this case was directly related to the 9\/11 incident,” Dr. Gerard Breton, a pathologist at the Ocean County, N.J., medical examiner’s office wrote in the Feb. 28 autopsy report.<\/p>\n

Zadroga died on Jan. 5 of pulmonary disease and respiratory failure — and he had lung-tissue inflammation Breton attributed to “a history of exposure to toxic fumes and dust.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The problem with rushing to build so many unsatisfyingly small (in their scope and artistic vision) 9\/11 memorials is that brave people worthy of our memory are still dying from the attacks: An autopsy of a retired NYPD detective confirmed yesterday what his family and fellow cops long suspected — that James Zadroga’s death was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}