I'm a little late on this,

but I did want to mention it.

September 11th is still claiming lives.

“If you were healthy and it happened again, would you go, he said I would go all over again,” said the victim’s father, Joseph Zadroga.

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James spent as many as 16 hours a day at ground zero, searching for victims. His family says the long hours started catching up with him nearly a month after the tragedy. He retired in 2004 after developing a constant cough and other respiratory problems that required him to use a machine for oxygen.