Mar 172019
On Sept. 11, 2001, Marines veteran Charles “Chuck” Flickinger walked into the local firehouse in Lake Carmel, N.Y., and volunteered to join the rescue effort. He arrived at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan by nightfall, and was sent underneath the ruins of the World Trade Center to look for survivors.
When he returned home three days later, his wife, Charlotte Berwind, says he was changed.
See article on Time.com:
http://time.com/5540749/9-11-victims-compensation-fund-worries/
A related story:
https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2019/mar/09/kirsten-gillibrand/gillibrand-highlights-911-cancer-deaths/