Marcy Borders
Marcy
Borders, 9/11's “dust lady” died of stomach cancer at age
42 (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/26/911s-dust-lady-marcy-borders-dies-of-stomach-cancer).
With that, the very long list of those killed on 9/11/01 (or at least by the
toxins they were exposed to) and the weeks that followed keeps on growing.
On 9/11/01 Ms. Borders was just 28 y/o and had just
started a job with Bank of America just a month earlier.
We STILL
don’t know all of what was in the air after that terrorist attack, nor do we
seem to understand all the toxic effects of the chemical soup so many were
exposed to in the wake of that horrific event.
Marcy Borders, like so many others deserved much
better.
In related news, one of the first
reports I came across after reading of the death of marcy Borden was, “VA
mocks PTSD veteran with phony address. According to Veterans Affairs, PTSD
veteran lives on Coo Coo Lane” (http://www.capveterans.com/year2015/id64.html).
Do you get the gist here? The Veteran in question
has claimed PTSD and given a false address – a common ploy used by those who
wish to avoid further scrutiny and documentation and is mocked over that.
Unfortunately PTSD is, by far, the most abused medical
disability category in existence today, surpassing "unspecified back"
injuries, as those can now be better documented via MRIs, etc. Here is an
actual victim of PTSD (post-WW I; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jll9_EiyA).
At that time, PTDS was commonly referred to as "shell shock,"
although medically it was referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Those
who are actually impacted by actual PTSD CANNOT
function in society. They CANNOT
hold jobs, they CANNOT move about
freely as shown in the above video, they are not “otherwise normal people who suffer from occasional flashbacks and
sudden panic attacks.” They were institutionalized at the time and those
who actually suffer real PTSD should almost certainly be institutionalized
today, as well...the parameters of that diagnosis haven't changed.
HOWEVER,
since that time PTSD has undergone a transformation, first to "battle
fatigue," in WWII. There's the famous footage of George Patton slapping the troop he saw as looking to duck combat
with the charge and since that time it has been expanded to cover virtually ANY "aversion to adverse
stimuli," in other words, "hurt feelings." In short, PTSD is far
too easy to fake.
I’ve worked 30 years in the FDNY and 20 of those in
one of the busiest Units in that job in the South Bronx. I’ve seen tragedy and
death...quite a bit of it. I responded to 9/11 that evening and we were there
until Thursday morning the 13th, than worked every other day for a few
weeks. Questionable PTSD disabilities are sadly very common in that Department,
especially since 9/11. The rewards of tax-free disability pensions is too much
of a lure for many people to forego that kind of base immorality. If it happens
in the FDNY (and it DOES), why
wouldn’t happen in equal numbers in every other venue?
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