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Linda Mercer, Warrior For Post-9/11 Health Aid, Dies

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 11/7/19

A Traffic Enforcement Agent and 9/11 first-responder who went public with her nightmarish experience with the city’s bureaucracy in her battle for paid sick leave, has died from her World Trade Center-related cancer.

Her testimony was credited by colleagues with helping them win unlimited sick time for non-uniformed city personnel suffering with diseases contracted while working in the toxic atmosphere created by the Trade Center’s destruction.

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