LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Remember lives lost later, too

OPINION:

Tomorrow the bell at Ground Zero will once again toll and the roll call of the 2,996 human beings murdered in Osama bin Laden’s heinous attack on Spet. 11, 2001, will once again be read. Their names are etched in the perpetuity of stone. When will America begin tolling a bell, reading the litany of names, and on what wall or monument will we put that ever-growing, longer list of the thousands who continue to die as a result of bin Laden’s attacks?

Those heroic first responders and regular folks who were fortunate to go on about their lives after the attacks and final clearing of ’the pile’ — only to learn that they were eventually going to perish as a result of being exposed to the lethal poisons released by the destruction of the Twin Towers and nearby structures — cannot be forgotten.

In a nation so eager to rewrite and “correct” its history by tearing down monuments and erasing its past, when will the move be made to remember the history of the terrible and silent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001?

K.J. DOLNEY

Columbia, S.C.