August 06, 2010
RTAmerica
RT filmed this emotional footage of 9/11 first responders pouring their hearts out at a speech just blocks away from where the twin towers fell. The rally was in response to Congress defeating a federal bill that would have provided billions of dollars in health care for those sickened by toxins released by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers Sept. 11, 2001.
Editor’s Note: Politicians of all stripes used the first responders for photo ops and political pandering. They repeatedly told the public the importance of standing by America’s first responders:“As the tragic deaths of the 343 members of the New York Fire Department on 9/11 make plain, America’s first responders are on the front line of this war,” McCain said.
They passed symbolic legislation to honor first reponders:
And yet, first responders have had to fight for medical help for more than a decade: