One year after the 9/11/01 attack, my lovely wife and I decided to take our 10-year-old son to the “Site”. We took a ferry from Jersey and a bus downtown. We got off the bus at West Street and Albany, walked two blocks to West Broadway and turned left. We were 2 blocks from the “Site”. I stopped dead in my tracks. The smell of concrete dust was overwhelming (remember – it was 1 YEAR later!). I said, “We’re not going any closer.” And we didn’t. We walked south to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal and bought pretzels.
In 2016, in a Guardian US interview with Editor, Betsy Reed, former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman admitted she was wrong to tell New Yorkers post-9/11 air was safe. “I’m sorry. We did the very best we could … with the knowledge we had”, Whitman said.
One of Dad’s Quotes says : “ When you screw up – APOLOGIZE!”
I guess I must forgive her. (Damnit!)
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