Nearly a quarter of a century later the damage from that Tuesday morning in September of 2001 still wreaks havoc on those people who responded to the attacks at the World Trade Center. Thankfully Mt. Sinai created the 9/11 World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening and Treatment Program otherwise there would be no way to track the growing death toll from the attacks.
Like many other major disasters that have occurred over time a large part of the people who roam the earth today weren't even alive 24 years ago. For many it didn't directly affect them. And then there's the people who lost colleagues, friends, and family. Lastly, there are those whose health is deteriorating due to their time spent in and around Ground Zero or the subsequent searches at Staten Island or during the demolition and rebuilding of the Freedom Tower. The official death toll at the World Trade Center was 2,753, and since then far more people have died.
While that day and the time after was absolutely horrible one thing thing was this country was united like I have never seen in my lifetime. You think we would have learned, but we didn't. That lasted a year or two and then the United States changed, and not for the better. When 9/11 happened everyone stopped, these days when things happen, of course not to that magnitude, no one even passes. Mass shootings, horrible disasters, it's just a blip on the social media screen, and then it's off to do what we were doing. We went from putting other people first to being selfish, unkind, a little paranoid, and hyper vigilant. We're not heading in the right direction in a world where cops, firemen, and nurses scrap to earn a living while an Only Fans creator makes tens of millions a month.
Remember where you were that day, if you were alive, and how horrible it was. If you weren't around pray that something like that doesn't happen again. I fear if it did it would be of a larger scale with a much creator death toll.