.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48614524

"Stewart appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, calling it "shameful" that many lawmakers did not attend to hear testimony from first responders."

For decades I've known- everyone has known- that modern building and furnishing materials give off toxic products of combustion.
Set fire to two Manhattan high rises? Guaranteed long-term harm.

Jet fuel is mostly kerosene (paraffin, to you EU folks), and the output is tolerable, if it burns fully. The rest of it is some strange and powerful and toxic additives. Pour four airliner wings full of it down those same high rises? Guaranteed long-term harm.

My go-to photo of 9/11 was taken by one of the crowd descending an internal staircase in panic. A firefighter is going up. Alone. He didn't walk down. In full gear, so it could have been male, female, Black, White, atheist, Christian, Muslim ...

It's a fact of history that governments speechify on 'our valiant whatever', but are slow to care for those same ones after the cause for panic has been removed. By the valiant. See Kipling's "Tommy".

Time to compare: not only does my government reward all those who work for it, but it has provisions ready to undo the damage, beginning with death. 1John 3:8.

After one battle, King David awarded equal shares of the spoil to "the one who went down into the battle" and to "the one who sat by the baggage". 1Sam 30:24. It was "a regulation and a rule for Israel" from that day forward.