Firefighter who survived 9/11: Afghan withdrawal a ‘betrayal’ to all warriors in War on Terror
John Solomon Reports
John Solomon
4.7 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Niels Jorgensen, survivor of 9/11 and ‘ground zero’ related cancer, discusses the legacy of 9/11 and the epidemic of first responders dying of 9/11 related illnesses and cancer, revealing that, ‘2 people a-day die’ are dying from 9/11 related illnesses. Jorgensen goes on to talk about the ‘warrior class’ of the War on Terror, describing the feelings of ‘betrayal’ over the Afghanistan Withdrawal, saying that, these men feel like ‘the backs of our government have been turned on’ them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and welcome to a new edition of John Solomon Reports, a podcast from |
| 0:11.5 | Justinude where today I have a treat for you. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:17.2 | This is just going to be amazing. |
| 0:21.5 | Every so often, I'm blessed to meet someone that maybe no one's ever heard of or should |
| 0:25.5 | have heard of or I hadn't heard of. |
| 0:27.4 | In the second you meet this person, the second you hear their story, the second you see |
| 0:32.7 | their love and dedication for America, you go and you say the world needs to meet this |
| 0:39.0 | person and I've got that person today. |
| 0:42.2 | Retired, the Arc Fire Department Lieutenant, Neal's Jorgensen is going to join us today. |
| 0:49.1 | He is just one of the many heroes forged that day, 20 plus years ago, on 9-11. |
| 0:56.4 | He responded, he stayed on scene, he breathed the air around those collapsed towers. |
| 1:02.7 | He got the rarest forms of leukemia, was told he was about to die, but this Irish firefighter |
| 1:08.2 | doesn't take that diagnosis laying down and he beat leukemia. |
| 1:13.3 | He beat it. |
| 1:15.0 | And since that time, he has been on a mission to make sure that Americans never forget, |
| 1:19.7 | just like the special we had last week, all the great people that day, what they said, |
| 1:26.0 | mattered and resonated in such a way. |
| 1:28.8 | What Neal's Jorgensen has done in recent weeks and recent months is to put together an |
| 1:32.9 | effort to accomplish two things. |
| 1:34.9 | One, there are tens of thousands of people still ill from illnesses related to breathing |
| 1:41.2 | the air, working the ground, working the crime scene, the rescue operations, their firefighters, |
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