September 11th

"On that day itself, every half hour or hour, someone would come in and say, ‘did you know so and so was killed? Did you know someone else was missing, or was in the tower?’ And you just had this momentary sense of incredible loss."

The Watertown base transformed from a peacetime installation of the 1990’s post-Cold War era, to a deployment hub on a war footing.

“I really feel in my heart pretty strongly that my exposure to... the pollution, the things going on after September 11th, have to do with that diagnosis.”

"I want them to know that it's personal for so many of us."

Brindisi wants to pressure his colleagues in Washington D.C. to pass a bill that benefits 9/11 first responders.