"Nobody apologized after 9/11 to us. Nobody said, 'Sorry for lying to you,'" Feal said. "Their apology was to create the World Trade Center Health Program. We had to fight for 20 years to get legislation passed. Imagine, we had to chase our own apology."
"There is always a question of where the money is going to come from, and that is always the issue in D.C. and politics. Who is paying for it. Where is it coming from?" said Bridget Gormley, whose FDNY father died of 9/11-related cancer.
"No one took into consideration medical inflation in 2015," Feal said. "There were 70,000 people in the program in 2015. Now, there are 132,000-plus in the program. This is our apology."
"Most of the illnesses now that are popping up are the cancers, and they told us back when they were doing the studies that when we got to the 20-25th year, and that's what we are seeing now," added Rich Palmer, retired Department of Correction warden.
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