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...thank you, A1-Hosting for your generous donation of this website's server.... & Beth Morean & Wendy LaTorre for your incredible support to Ground Zero Museum Workshop . You said you would help and followed through immediately and as a result many people will be touched emotionally... Michael Conk for building us a beautiful, steel display table at COST. John Esty , you are such an awesome guy, extremely talented at the art of framing, creative concepts and installations and you did everything at cost and this is such a gift to everyone that was affected by September 11 . You're just area cool "dude." Roy Nagakubo , thanks for being so positive and supportive also..... Brian Lynch and the folks at Design Within Reach in the Meat-Packing District for your generous donation of furniture for the Museum.... Mohamed & Abbas Khalfan , you guys and your dad BABU have "finished" this project with your extreme generosity..nothing more I can say other than THANKS...Thank you Fred Katz and Vinnie at Lightforms in Chelsea ... JEFFREY Clothing store in the Meat-Packing DIstrict for your support and also the HOTEL GANSEVOORT ...Special thanks to Joshua at the Bodum Store .. Thank you PR SUPERSTAR Nicole Korkolis for your generosity and support... To TIM MOORE , who who just days after perusing and asking for my Ground Zero photo book was savagely taken from this world..I am sorry I never got to give you the book and look at your ever-welcoming face at POP Restaurant after that tragic & senseless day... Dennis of Dennis Laminating , you are such a caring individual and really gave so much to this project - THANK YOU..Zilvinas & my friends at INTERCOM.com web hosting, thanks for hosting this website for free and for technical support... Doug & Mike Heller , thanks for your input & ideas regarding the design of the Museum... Thanks VEEJAY at Big Apple Visual for making the 3-Dimensional installations come to life with your incredible talent at 3-D images... Erika Perez Leon , for your beautiful graphics work, bringing the GZMW to life... Annette Uptain for your support and enthusiasm for the GZMW... Jean-Marie at Midtown Lighting and to LIGHTOLIER for your support with the Museum... Tom at Horizon Window Treatments for your quick "yes" to helping us!... The Intelligencer Printing Team in Pennsylvania, wow--thank you for donating the thousands of Ground Zero posters & postcards that we can now sell for the chosen charities; very generous of you...Thanks to SOHO HOUSE for your support... ...Thanks to Tom Cruise for raising 1.2 million dollars to pay for Ground Zero workers to have the WTC chemical detox program...You are a great humanitarian...Thanks to NOAM SPanier & Family for your support of the museum and my vision.....To all my friends in the Fire Department of New York .. Sue Lucarelli , you are such an angel and you care about children so much and you do everything from your heart. HugsAcross America .net was such an awesome idea to make those less fortunate children have something to hug and I know the 9-11 orphans who visit us will appreciate your free Teddy Bears... To all the RECOVERY WORKERS & VOLUNTEERS of Ground Zero , YOU ALL ROCK..... Matt's Cookies in Chicago (my hometown), thank you for sending me thousands of your gourmet cookies to give to 9/11 orphans ... Daniel at Chelsea Frames for helping me with charities for three full years with wholesale framing!.. Carhartt Clothing in Michigan , thanks for sending me jackets to embroider as WTC Memorial Jackets to sell for charity...Jan Lederman and MAMIYA Cameras, if you hadn't sponsored me at Ground Zero I'd have "bupkus"... Andrej Hlinka , thanks for building all the installations in the Museum! You are an awesome carpenter! Firefighter Lee Ielpi , thank you for being my friend and believing in my vision by lending me your support & ideas...Your constant fight to keep the integrity at a high level regarding anything having to do with Ground Zero is admired & respected... CHieF Joe W. Pfeifer, you are a great listener; patient and helpful and a real mentor. Your support and trust that I am doing the "right thing" only makes me try harder to make this Museum as perfect and as special as it can be... Chief Dan Nigro , thanks for making me an Honorary FDNY Chief and always advising me on all ethical & moral matters as they pertain to my work in conjunction with the FDNY ... Nakka Murali , who designed this website so beautifully...yes, I know I am demanding at times, but you always come through and your talents will touch people through the graphic design of this website...And you do this all the way on the other side of the globe!! Edward Persaud , you are a talented and caring friend who keeps me on track when ever I call on you, so thanks.. .Lt. Brian Bonsignore , thanks for calling and waking me up in April of 2002 from Ground Zero when the wind was blowing into the pit at 1:00AM so I could finally capture the "Last Beam" and the blowing flag after weeks of waiting...You are a good friend... Capt. Bill Butler , that day you hugged and held the widow who was crying at Ground Zero as she awaited word of her missing fireman husband spoke volumes to who you are as a human being... Arnie Roma , your son is definitely #344... Capt. John Vigiano , you are an amazing man; a #10 on the richter scale of strength, grit and real sensitivity for others when all logic would dictate you should be focusing on your own healing...amazing... Chelsea Market for your support with this project... Chief Steve Zaderiko , you have been a real friend to me since the first day I met you at Ground Zero; you wear your heart on your sleeve and that's just a cool thing... Rev. Mitties DeChamplain, you are a heartfelt human being that performed God's work at Ground Zero on behalf of grieving families without blinking an eye and have been so supportive of me and a wonderful listener and counselor...I know your husband Ron is smiling down on you from Heaven...And lastly, this website is also dedicated to the 27 ground zero workers who have died since 2002 ; many who died suddenly after going in for routine surgeries and procedures. That includes young fireman John Masera , who went into a coma and died shortly after having hip surgery.
These workers, many of them in supposedly excellent shape, died because their immune systems could not handle the anesthesia after being exposed to Ground Zero chemicals for all those months. Hopefully, more awareness will surface as to the toxic exposure that WTC Recovery workers were hit with and more federal funding will be allocated by President Bush to help those that struggled at Ground Zero to find the missing so they could bring closure to 9/11 families...
12,000 WTC Recovery workers are sick and they must NOT be abandoned...
NEVER FORGET…..
-GARY MARLON SUSON, New York City
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