by Lionel Bascom — May 24th, 2007 — 1 comment
A milestone was reached in naming the victims of the World Trade Center attacks when the name of a woman who died of lung disease five months after Sept. 11 was added to the death toll of the 9/11 victims.
The name of Felicia Dunn-Jones was added to the 9/11 victims list after being asked to by her family but it didn’t happen without a fight.
New York City Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch refused, writing back that his office could not link her death to the exposure “with certainty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
That changed Wednesday, when Dunn-Jones was added to the medical examiner’s list of attack victims. It marked the first time the city has officially linked a death to the toxic dust caused by the World Trade Center’s collapse.
The 42-year-old attorney was caught in the dust cloud while fleeing the collapsing towers on Sept. 11, 2001. She died of sarcoidosis, a disease that causes inflammation and scarring in the lungs, on Feb. 10, 2002.
In explaining the reversal, Hirsch cited “accumulated scientific research” that concluded exposure to trade center dust can cause or contribute to sarcoidosis.
“Mrs. Dunn-Jones’ exposure to World Trade Center dust on 9/11/01 contributed to her death and it has been ruled a homicide,” Hirsch wrote. “Mrs. Dunn-Jones has now been added to the list of people who died as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.”
The city puts the Sept. 11 death toll at the trade center at 2,750. Dunn-Jones will be listed on the Sept. 11 memorial when it opens in 2009, a spokeswoman for the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation said.
A class-action lawsuit has claimed that dozens of deaths have been caused by exposure to toxic trade center dust.
A study published this month by a Fire Department of New York doctor linked sarcoidosis definitively to exposure to the toxic plume that enveloped lower Manhattan after Sept. 11. It found that firefighters contracted the disease at a much higher rate after the attacks than before.
New York lawmakers seeking federal funding for Sept. 11 health issues said more names should be added to the list.
11:14 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, The Attack, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News, Neighbourhood
This immensely important issue surrounding 9/11 that this act of inhumanity caused many innocent human beings to lose their lives needs more direct attention.
Unfortunately, since the beginning of the War in Iraq, many U.S. citizens have lapsed into a lethargic, apathetic, conceited mind frame that does not recognize the mind manipulation that has transpired since the fall of 2001. Not one creature associated with the 9/11 attacks came from Iraq. Those creatures involved in the groups that supported the attacks on the United States are still at large, allowed to live their sick lives, making sick plans of hate crimes, doing sick acts of dishonor to women.
And what do we, the people of the United States say about this incongruity? not enough.
What do we, the people of the United States do about this incongruity? not enough.
At least there is one feathered friend in Connecticut, who has enough guts to make the point that the “the emperor has no clothes.”
Jeanne · May 25th, 2007 at 3:29 pm