Ann - Thanks for your comments. What do you say to the hundreds of New Yorkers who have lung disease who were not working at ground zero? Those folks were told that there wasn't any problem. I posted a story about a civil rights lawyer here. Thanks again.

I'll tell you where the outrage is. There is nobody in the government that gives the American people enough credit to walk across the street without having our hands held by government. The people who worked the pile after 9/11, did so out of a sense of duty. Yes, they were told to wear protective gear and was supplied the said gear. If they didn't wear it, it was their personal choice. They were not unaware of the risks to their own personal safety and health. If the masks were clogging or were too hot and they took them off, they did so at their own peril. I'm not putting them down. I'm saying it was important enough to them to take the risks to get the job done, much like the firefighters and policemen than ran into the burning building. To now point fingers at Christie Todd Whitman and the government strikes me as ridiculous. The valient people who worked the pile, did so while casting their own safety aside. I resent the politics and fingerpointing employed here. We were all attacked, not one party or the other. That's the outrage I feel.