The WTC Was Nuked

Three firefighters who responded to Ground Zero died on the same day. They all suffered from cancer.

Three former members of the New York City fire department who had responded to the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks died on the same day this week.
Daniel Heglund, Howard Bischoff and Robert Leaver died Monday, according to NY1, which reported that each of the men suffered from cancer.

"Even after he was first diagnosed with leukemia in 2003, he never wanted to be called a 9/11 victim," Leaver's widow, Rosaria, told the New York Daily News. "He would say, 'The innocent people in the towers were the victims. Don't ever call me a victim. I was a first responder.' "

Some types of cancers are among the illnesses covered by the Sept. 11 compensation fund, but it's unclear whether there's a link between the disease and the wreckage and debris left after the attacks.

"About 99.9 percent of us wouldn't change anything that happened. Even after 9/11 and what went on afterwards, we were firemen," Heglund's brother, FDNY Capt. Paul Heglund, told the Daily News. "That's what we do."

Just to be clear, these men likely got cancer from the radioactive debris at Ground Zero.

Hmmm... but why 99.9%???

Well, 99.9 divided by 3 = (wait for it).... 33.3