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‘Tireless’ 9/11 WTC Advocates Given City’s Top Civilian Medal by Mayor

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 12/20/19

Every year since the 9/11 attacks, the City of New York has regularly honored the first-responders who lost their lives that day and in the years since due to exposure to the WTC toxins during the clean-up that followed.

Yet more than 18 years later the advocates for the families who had already lost a family member and the tens of thousands of first-responders and World Trade Center survivors who were grappling with life-altering diagnoses went largely unrecognized.

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