July 1st, 2019. The 9/11 Memorial, Staten Island, New York at sunset. Here, the rite of passage into the sphere of elect men and women includes the commemoration of those who died after that fateful day, as a result of illness from the toxic exposure that affected for a long time tenths of thousands of people. The search-and-rescue operations and the WTC deconstruction effort involved an incredible number of responders to whom gratitude and respect is eternally due.