Thank you, A1-Hosting for your generous donation of this website's server...BIG Thanks to BETH MOREAN & WENDY LATORRE in Florida for your incredible fundraising for Ground Zero Museum Workshop. You offered your assistance in 2005 and followed through immediately. Thanks to AMERICAN LEATHER in Dallas, Texas for the donation of the gorgeous, white ‘ALBERT’ Museum sofa. 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 was such a gift to everyone that was affected by September 11. Thanks to Neil Poch, owner of Tour Mate Systems in Canada for the incredible self-guided audio units! Roy Nagakubo, thanks for being so positive and supportive also...Mohamed & Abbas Khalfan of Signs and Decal Corp., 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...To TIM MOORE, who just days after perusing and asking for my Ground Zero photo book was savagely taken from this world while working as Manager of Pop Burger...I am sorry I never got to give you the book and will miss seeing you in the neighborhood. It was a tragic & senseless loss...Thanks to FUJI CAMERAS for helping us to afford the S5 PRO “Museum Camera.” Thanks to FDNY Firefighter and former UFA Manhattan Trustee Rudy Sanfilippo for taking notice of my work in 2001 and for always being honest when faced with adversity and speaking up against those who cajole and distort…Dennis of Dennis Laminating, you are such a caring individual and really gave so much to this project - THANK YOU. Thanks to the HERSHEY’S STORE in TIMES SQUARE for your donation of chocolates that we hand out to our guests…Zilvinas & my friends at INTERCOM.com web hosting, thanks for hosting this website for free the first three years and for technical support...Thank you Tommy Pruitt of Force Protection in South Carolina for your donations to our 9/11 Museum…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.. Annette Uptain for your support and enthusiasm for the GZMW...Thanks to Diamond Rock Water of Manhattan for assisting us with great drinking water for our guests. 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 Museum & charities; very generous of you...Thanks to SOHO HOUSE for your support...Thanks to Colette DeHarpporte of OnPoint Lasers, Ltd. for donating green lasers to our Tour Guides! 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 my loyal friends in the Fire Department of New York..Sue Lucarelli, you are such an angel and you care about children so much; you do everything from your heart. HugsAcrossAmerica.net was such a great idea to help those less fortunate children have something to hug...To all the RECOVERY WORKERS & VOLUNTEERS of Ground Zero, The World Appreciates You...Matt's Cookies in Chicago (my hometown), thank you for sending us thousands of your gourmet cookies to give to our Museum guests... Carhartt Clothing in Michigan, thanks for sending us 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"... ANDRE HLINKA, thanks for building all the installations in the Museum! You are an awesome carpenter! FDNY 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...FDNY Chief Joseph 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...Thanks to Joan Kovats for your support of the Museum and its Mission. FDNY Chief of Department Daniel Nigro (ret.), thank you for nominating me for the rank of Honorary FDNY Battalion 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 we are 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!! David at Chelsea Market Baskets, thanks for your kind donations of cookies to the Museum…Allergy Coordinator Edward Persaud of the Borenstein Center, you are a talented and caring friend who keeps me on track whenever I call on you, so thanks...Kudos to Dr. David Borenstein for giving hope to those with compromised immune systems. FDNY Lt. Brian Bonsignore (ret.), 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...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...FDNY Captain John Vigiano (ret.), you’re 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 man...Chelsea Market for your support with this project...FDNY Battalion 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...FDNY Chief Stephen Rasweiler, thanks for helping me to capture some historical images at WTC…FDNY Battalion Chief Jim Riches, thanks for looking out for me at Ground Zero…Rev. Mitties DeChamplain, you are a heartfelt woman who performed God's work at Ground Zero on behalf of grieving families without blinking an eye and have been so supportive of me. You’re wonderful listener and counselor...I know that your husband Ron is smiling down on you from Heaven...And lastly, this website is also dedicated to the roughly 36 ground zero workers who have died since 2002; some of whom passed away suddenly after going in for routine surgeries and procedures. That includes young FDNY Firefighter John Masera, who went into a coma and died shortly after having routine hip surgery after the Ground Zero Recovery ended.

These workers, many of them in ssupposedly 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 Barack Obama 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 NOW ILL
NEVER FORGET…..

- MARLON SUSON, New York City