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NEW YORK – “My husband is worse off, he doesn’t recognize me anymore. Is it Alzheimer’s? Who can I contact?” John Feal, 55, receives messages like this every day. A former construction worker, he was badly injured at Ground Zero where he ran after the collapse of the Twin Towers. Since then he has been fighting for the recognition of subsidies to “first responders”, rescuers who have fallen ill working on the toxic rubble of the World Trade Center.
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