Saturday on Long Island, more than 300 names were etched forever on a memorial wall.
The 9/11 Responders Remembered Memorial Park in Nesconset commemorates not just emergency responders but also everything from auto mechanics to architects and people who participated in the massive months-long recovery at Ground Zero - and paid with their lives, years later after they got sick.
"We need to raise money for two new walls because people are dying faster and we can't keep up," Feal says.Saturday's memorial service had special meaning for Eyewitness News because one of the names added belonged toHe spent weeks, even months at the pile, documenting the emergency and subsequent recovery. 20 years later, he felt pain in his back and shoulder. It was an invasive 9/11 cancer.
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