The Day That Wouldn’t End

“Gradually, he pulled away from things that brought him joy. He no longer remembered how to open the family’s backyard pool in the spring. He stopped tinkering on his Corvette. He began sitting in his living room alone without the television on. Then one night, distraught, he called his wife, Maria. ‘I don’t know where I am,’ he told her.” For some first responders, on the anniversary of 9-11, the slow motion impacts of that day continue to arrive. WaPo (Gift Article): 9/11 responders are getting dementia. They want the government to help.