Anybody watching "Metal of Honor: the Ironworkers of 9/11"?

[LongTomH]

These guys were REAL heroes!

[Monkeyman]

1. Yep they are but now they are dying from what they were exposed to

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. What is it about?

I know it's the twin towers, but from what perspective?

[LongTomH]

3. It's interviews with the ironworkers themselves.

The guys who did the recovery & cleanup at Ground Zero.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Thank you!

Sounds interesting.

[LongTomH]

5. It's on SpikeTV

Almost forgot!

[Monkeyman]

6. 50 percent suffering from lung problems

[newburgh]

7. Call me clueless, but why would these cleanup people be considered heros?

Maybe I'm not clear on the story. I was in NYC and witnessed most of what happened as it happened. The only heros I can fathom are the people who were right there dealing with what was going on: the security people, the firefighters, the police, the emergency rescue workers, the people in the building(and from without) who helped get people out. The workers who came afterwards, including my partner, to assist in cleaning up the site were doing a job. I still haven't figured out why most of these people volunteered to do this when the person who leased this property was bound to be covered financially for this work. These people were VICTIMS of government lies and deception about the toxicity of the site. And, from what I'm aware of, VICTIMS of the owner of the property who should have compensated them for that work. :shrug:

[applegrove]

8. They showed up to find victims and did the dangerous work. Their

fathers had build WTC. They else had a clue what to do with iron piled high as rubble. Obviously once a few weeks had passed..the hurry was off. No more victims to be found alive. But they stayed and .. really..it was a blender when those buildings went caput. So they were vulnerable to PTSD (and they knew it). Some suffer from it I bet. Now they suffer from lung problems. They do dangerous work for a living. But rescue work was new to them. And like all civilians who get into rescue work..it can be very dangerous. Can change your whole life PTSD. A shock to the system and then you wake up and have a shock to the system the next day. Over months. Try it sometime!

I think some of them lost their marriages too. Huge stress doing that work.. a type of work they were not trained for.. but who else was going to monkey around bent iron girders? People who have the guts to do it when the building went up. Or those people's sons who carry on the tradition of high iron work.