Geraldo Rivera: What Does 9/11 Mean to a True American Hero? Some firefighters Who didn't get credited for Aiding N.Y.F.D during & after 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on The World Trade Center: still the unsung heroes of 9/11, BUT ARE FINALLY GETTING RECOGNIZED by the World!!
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Some firefighters Who didn't get credited for Aiding N.Y.F.D during & after 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on The World Trade Center: still the unsung heroes of 9/11, BUT ARE FINALLY GETTING RECOGNIZED by Hollywood & the World on 9/11/2011 & are now Immortalized Forevermore!!
Unsung Heroes Of 9/11
[Sep 9, 2011] The tenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, has inspired a reflective mood in New York and much of the nation. While everyone looks back to honor heroes who have not been recognized...
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Incredible 9/11 heroes- by Author- Kristen Saloomey & The Grateful Families/Victims of 9/11
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"The unsung heroes of 9/11"
The tenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, has inspired a reflective mood in New York and much of the nation. While everyone looks back and recalls where they were when the towers fell, those who never got credit in the media before; until now, those who risk their lives to aide N.Y.P.D & The N.Y.F.D...
(Soon all these men will be profiled in upcoming Movies, TV Shows, Cartoons, & Comic Books
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True Heroes revolves around the daily lives of two undercover police officers and firefighters who aide the Justice Department in exposing corruption & injustice (many times with the help of other famous firefighters like: Dr. Frank Beckles & Steve Ford, movie actors, musicians, police officers, and sport athletes). The show was endorsed by the injustice files of the F.B.I., who chronicled their experiences in taking down evil people and murderers who escaped justice...
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under titles TRUE HEROES & UNSUNG HEROES like: Richard Rescorla's commitment helped over 2,500 co-workers survive as he stayed behind, Fireman Rev Dr Franklyn V Beckles Jr A Crusader Against Injustice : Navy Seal Trainee (hero in 1994 Iraq War) & Firefighter (9/11 volunteer hero) made Television History on 1/7/2011 Dr. Beckles Discussing on TBN about Injustice by The Richmond County Board of Education, and Corruption at Augusta Fire Department, Racism at Butler Creek Trailer Park (evil landlords kick out poor women & children into the streets), and Protesting against the Racism at The Home Depot, a business that often harrass and wrongfully terminating African-American Men..Becoming on eof the few firefighters to become civil right leaders (the 1st church pastor from Aiken SC. To appear on TBN and other national Christian Broadcasting Networks, as a positive inspiration to other black men; as well as, appearing in movies like "Who's Your Caddy?", and tv shows: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", "Bootcamp", and WBPI's "Club 36". Actors Matt Gagston & Alexander Pope, (who appeared in movies and classic tv shows like: "Police Story", "Crimefighters", "New Jersey Patrol", & "Nighthawk"; also having love affairs & fathering children from some of Hollywood's famous women: Diane Cannon, Jacki Sams, Elizabeth Thai, Dakota Smith, Nina Mercendez, Kim Lee Thai, Julie-Ann Sams, and Natalie Wingler- to mention a few!!) served the N.Y.C. Fire & Police Departments while serving in the U.S. Military Special Forces (they were part of the Navy Seal Unit that took down Soma Bin Laden), to rid their streets of Drug Dealers, Criminal Feminists, and White Supremists.. Todd Green who put his Baseball career to become a Firefighter, took a bus to N.Y., in 2001; along with other Firefighters: Rev. Frank "The Tank" Beckles (a.k.a Vic "The Iceman" Beckles- former pro-athlete), Sloan Griffin, Steve Ford, Frank Johnsons, Jason Green, and John Bolton (among others) Who were not given any credit for risking their lives to aide N.Y.F.D in search and rescue operations!! Host of medical issues & physical disability cases
They include the very police and firefighters who spearheaded the recovery efforts on "the pile". Their dedication earned them national hero status – and a whole host of medical issues both physical and psychological.
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People who lived or worked in the neighbourhood – which includes New York's financial district - have also gotten sick.
And then there are the people like Iris: an estimated 2,000 low-wage workers who mopped up the toxic dust of the pulverised World Trade Centre that coated the buildings around the site. Unlike Iris, many are undocumented immigrants.
Alexander Pope, who was born in New York and is a N.Y.C police officer, Manuel Checo Pope his brother and a firefighter, other are Georgia and South Carolina firefighters: Matthew Gagston, Sloan Griffin, Dr. Frank Victor Beckles, Matt Choniare, Todd Green, Jason Kidd, John Bolton, and Antonio Sams who worked as a team clearing out air shafts. They worked in World Financial Centres 1, 2 and 3 on West Street where much of the debris from the twin towers landed. Alex describes crawling into the narrow shafts with an air hose to blow the dust though.
"Either I'd blow it toward Manny, or he would blow it toward me," says Alex, who now takes 13 different medications a day to help him with the basic tasks of breathing and eating. "I remember shining the flashlight into the dark and seeing all of the glass particles reflect in the air."
He says he was not properly trained or licensed for the job - and so had no idea that the face mask he was given was inadequate. The federal Department of Environmental Protection had told everyone the air was safe to breathe.
Uncertain times
All responders & volunteers (in-state or out-of-state) – even those who are undocumented – are entitled to medical care under the James Zadroga Health and Compensation Act, which became law in 2011. Many will also get some form of compensation – sorely needed by those who can no longer work due to sickness.
"Thousands of low-wage workers, volunteer firefighters from other states, independent film actors, national guard units from other states, and wrongfully discharged military servicemen who mopped up toxic dust of World Trade Centre faced illnesses with little government help, or recognition & repect from the state of N.Y. or the national media!!!"
FIREFIGHTER HEROES WHO AIDE THE N.A.A.C.P AS CRUSADERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS EXPOSING RACIST & FEMINIST CRIMINALS:
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www.apsense.com/article/140782.html Over the seven years since 9/11, there have been many ceremonies, new memorials and remembrances for those who died in that day’s tragic events.
Police officers, firefighters, volunteers, volunteer firefighters, celebrities, and other first responders gather every year with politicians on stages across America. Yet few remember that the first casualties of the terrorist attacks were flight attendants. Sadly, airline crew members are almost never included in the tributes.
That’s a shame.
I’ve said so on every anniversary of the September attacks, and I’ll say it again this year.
Only last month, on a transatlantic flight I was told that another flight bound for America had gone into a cockpit lockdown after a suspected terrorist incident in the middle of the Atlantic. The pilot informed the crew about this ongoing incident and every member of the cabin crew went into high alert. Once again, flight attendants found themselves on the front line of a war whose battles are constantly shifting but ever exposing them to danger.
Airline flight attendants are the unsung heroes and frontline foot soldiers in this country’s “war on terrorism.” Though experts cannot predict when there will be another terrorist attack, they can all agree that one will come. New plans are certainly being tested to attack our transportation systems.
The stress on our airline systems has increased and will only get worse. And yet flight attendants continue to report to work every day, ready to do what they can to keep us safe. I hope the traveling public does not take them for granted.
Every time a plane takes off, every time a traveler stands up and walks toward the cockpit, and every time a passenger ducks behind his seat to dig through carry-on luggage, flight attendants go on high alert.
Seven years ago, immediately after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the media was filled with stories about “real heroes” — rescuers, police and firefighters who risked their lives to save workers in those buildings. The firefighters, EMTs and police deserve every accolade they receive. However, flight attendants should be praised as well.
Flight attendants face potential danger every time they go to work. Where once their main purpose was to see to in-flight comforts and provide knowledgeable assistance in case of an emergency landing, their new job requirements are much more nerve-racking. Worse, their work is almost always taken for granted.
What once was an airborne world of giddy tourists and grumpy businessmen is now a war zone. Trouble — perhaps deadly trouble — could break out in the cabin at any time. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But perhaps someday.
New terrorist dangers are unknown. So unknown, in fact, that the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration, and other government organizations still cannot predict where, when or how an attack will take place.
While passengers grumble about the inconvenience of waiting in long security lines, taking off our shoes, putting liquids in checked baggage, and having our luggage and bodies probed, most of us have decided to fly anyway, at least to places that are important to us. We have that choice. Flight attendants don’t. If they want to continue being paid, they have to go to work.
The same is true of pilots, of course. But pilots are now barricaded inside their cockpits. Some have been given stun guns and others have been trained to carry firearms. But what are flight attendants getting?
Not much. Before captains lock themselves in the cockpit, they now basically tell the flight attendants that they will have to fend for themselves. They don’t have much choice — most everyone agrees that the cockpit door must stay locked.
Yes, some airlines now train flight attendants in the basics of self-defense: skills like coordinating with other flight attendants, maintaining distance, assuming a protective body position, and dealing with unruly passengers. Some airlines even offer advanced programs — on a voluntary basis — but the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) still, seven years later, hasn’t designed a system for evaluating this training and, worse, flight attendants still have a hard time getting time off to attend.
As for public recognition, there’s been almost nothing. Instead, what flight attendants have seen since I first wrote this story seven years ago is a continuing series of layoffs, downsizings and reductions in pay.
Are our memories so short?
Flight attendants were the most consistent source of information on 9/11 when, at the risk of their lives, they phoned airline operations personnel to let them know about the hijackings; they even provided seat numbers and descriptions of the hijackers. Flight attendants were most certainly involved with the in-cabin attack on the terrorists aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania instead of into a building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Later, in one of the few instances of terrorism thwarted in the act, a diminutive flight attendant physically prevented a fanatic from lighting a fuse to a shoe-bomb that would have downed American Airlines Flight 63 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
So, let’s get our priorities straight.
Baggage screeners earn between $25,000 and $38,000 a year. TSA supervisors earn $44,400 to $68,800 a year. Federal air marshals make between $36,000 and $84,000 a year. These workers receive all the standard government perks of medical care, vacations and insurance. Meanwhile, flight attendants, the airlines’ real frontline troops, receive starting salaries of $18,000 a year, or less, and don’t have a prayer of seeing $30,000 for at least three years. Vacation time in those years is meager, while time “on reserve” (waiting around in case another flight attendant is sick or gets stuck in traffic) seems to be endless.
To add insult to paltry pay, over the past three years many flight attendants have had their retirement programs and pensions stripped from them by their struggling airlines.
For years, we have heard the flight attendant mantra, “We are here for your safety.” Now those words are truer than ever. And safety, today, means far more than helping with oxygen masks, securing the overhead compartments, checking seat belts and opening emergency doors.
Let’s face it: Federal air marshals are not on most flights. While the plane is in the air, flight attendants are our first line of defense. They may be serving peanuts, pretzels and drinks, but they are constantly on watch until touchdown at the final destination.
Today’s flight attendants face what amounts to nonstop battle stress from an unidentified, furtive and unpredictable enemy.
I, for one, thank them for their service. All of us who fly should thank them as well.
Police officers, firefighters, volunteers, volunteer firefighters, celebrities, and other first responders gather every year with politicians on stages across America. Yet few remember that the first casualties of the terrorist attacks were flight attendants. Sadly, airline crew members are almost never included in the tributes.
That’s a shame.
I’ve said so on every anniversary of the September attacks, and I’ll say it again this year.
Only last month, on a transatlantic flight I was told that another flight bound for America had gone into a cockpit lockdown after a suspected terrorist incident in the middle of the Atlantic. The pilot informed the crew about this ongoing incident and every member of the cabin crew went into high alert. Once again, flight attendants found themselves on the front line of a war whose battles are constantly shifting but ever exposing them to danger.
Airline flight attendants are the unsung heroes and frontline foot soldiers in this country’s “war on terrorism.” Though experts cannot predict when there will be another terrorist attack, they can all agree that one will come. New plans are certainly being tested to attack our transportation systems.
The stress on our airline systems has increased and will only get worse. And yet flight attendants continue to report to work every day, ready to do what they can to keep us safe. I hope the traveling public does not take them for granted.
Every time a plane takes off, every time a traveler stands up and walks toward the cockpit, and every time a passenger ducks behind his seat to dig through carry-on luggage, flight attendants go on high alert.
Seven years ago, immediately after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the media was filled with stories about “real heroes” — rescuers, police and firefighters who risked their lives to save workers in those buildings. The firefighters, EMTs and police deserve every accolade they receive. However, flight attendants should be praised as well.
Flight attendants face potential danger every time they go to work. Where once their main purpose was to see to in-flight comforts and provide knowledgeable assistance in case of an emergency landing, their new job requirements are much more nerve-racking. Worse, their work is almost always taken for granted.
What once was an airborne world of giddy tourists and grumpy businessmen is now a war zone. Trouble — perhaps deadly trouble — could break out in the cabin at any time. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But perhaps someday.
New terrorist dangers are unknown. So unknown, in fact, that the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration, and other government organizations still cannot predict where, when or how an attack will take place.
While passengers grumble about the inconvenience of waiting in long security lines, taking off our shoes, putting liquids in checked baggage, and having our luggage and bodies probed, most of us have decided to fly anyway, at least to places that are important to us. We have that choice. Flight attendants don’t. If they want to continue being paid, they have to go to work.
The same is true of pilots, of course. But pilots are now barricaded inside their cockpits. Some have been given stun guns and others have been trained to carry firearms. But what are flight attendants getting?
Not much. Before captains lock themselves in the cockpit, they now basically tell the flight attendants that they will have to fend for themselves. They don’t have much choice — most everyone agrees that the cockpit door must stay locked.
Yes, some airlines now train flight attendants in the basics of self-defense: skills like coordinating with other flight attendants, maintaining distance, assuming a protective body position, and dealing with unruly passengers. Some airlines even offer advanced programs — on a voluntary basis — but the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) still, seven years later, hasn’t designed a system for evaluating this training and, worse, flight attendants still have a hard time getting time off to attend.
As for public recognition, there’s been almost nothing. Instead, what flight attendants have seen since I first wrote this story seven years ago is a continuing series of layoffs, downsizings and reductions in pay.
Are our memories so short?
Flight attendants were the most consistent source of information on 9/11 when, at the risk of their lives, they phoned airline operations personnel to let them know about the hijackings; they even provided seat numbers and descriptions of the hijackers. Flight attendants were most certainly involved with the in-cabin attack on the terrorists aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania instead of into a building on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Later, in one of the few instances of terrorism thwarted in the act, a diminutive flight attendant physically prevented a fanatic from lighting a fuse to a shoe-bomb that would have downed American Airlines Flight 63 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
So, let’s get our priorities straight.
Baggage screeners earn between $25,000 and $38,000 a year. TSA supervisors earn $44,400 to $68,800 a year. Federal air marshals make between $36,000 and $84,000 a year. These workers receive all the standard government perks of medical care, vacations and insurance. Meanwhile, flight attendants, the airlines’ real frontline troops, receive starting salaries of $18,000 a year, or less, and don’t have a prayer of seeing $30,000 for at least three years. Vacation time in those years is meager, while time “on reserve” (waiting around in case another flight attendant is sick or gets stuck in traffic) seems to be endless.
To add insult to paltry pay, over the past three years many flight attendants have had their retirement programs and pensions stripped from them by their struggling airlines.
For years, we have heard the flight attendant mantra, “We are here for your safety.” Now those words are truer than ever. And safety, today, means far more than helping with oxygen masks, securing the overhead compartments, checking seat belts and opening emergency doors.
Let’s face it: Federal air marshals are not on most flights. While the plane is in the air, flight attendants are our first line of defense. They may be serving peanuts, pretzels and drinks, but they are constantly on watch until touchdown at the final destination.
Today’s flight attendants face what amounts to nonstop battle stress from an unidentified, furtive and unpredictable enemy.
I, for one, thank them for their service. All of us who fly should thank them as well.
Over the seven years since 9/11, there have been many ceremonies, new memorials and remembrances for those who died in that day’s tragic events. Police officers ...
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