Released on: December 23, 2008, 4:47 pm
Press Release Author: Arbor Books
Industry: Government
Press Release Summary: REPUBLICAN 9/11 HERO LOOKS FOR OBAMA’S HELP
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Release Body: (NEW BERN, NC)—One of the first responders who helped clear
debris and search for bodies at the World Trade Center site is hoping President-elect
Barack Obama doesn’t repeat the mistakes made by the Bush administration
in handling the care of his fellow volunteers.
Steven Centore, a nuclear physicist and Navy veteran, was one
of the many volunteers who assisted in the immediate aftermath of the September
11, 2001 attack.
Unfortunately, as do many of the other rescue workers, Mr. Centore now suffers
from post-traumatic stress disorder and other medically debilitating ailments
that have kept him from working. These conditions have required endless surgeries
and physical therapy to treat.
In his book, One of Them: A First Responder’s Story,
Mr. Centore details the neglect and mistreatment he and his fellow volunteers
have suffered at the hands of the government.
“The Bush administration really fumbled this issue,” says Mr.
Centore, a lifelong Republican. “The attacks of that day
are still having an effect on this country in the wars we fight overseas. But
they’re also having an effect here at home.”
Mr. Centore spent months at the World Trade Center and says that exposure to
the toxins in the air at the site have crippled or killed thousands of first
responders. His book includes some shocking statistics about the health of first
responders, including:
• 4,517 people with upper respiratory ailments
• 3,857 with lower respiratory illness
• 398 with lung disease
• 2,616 with asthma
• 1,340 with sleep apnea
• 2,528 with heart conditions caused or worsened by 9/11
“I was appalled at the lack of support and meager financial resources
provided to 9/11 first responders by the US government,” says Mr.
Centore, who has testified before Congress about the thousands of people
just like him who were told that the air at the WTC site was not dangerous.
He adds, “I wanted to tell the story of how I became ill, what the
government did and did not do for me, and what happened to me as a result. I’d
like to shed some light on the cover-ups that the government has been perpetrating
in the news.”
To learn more about how you can help, or to buy the breakout book One
of Them: A First Responder’s Story, visit www.SteveCentore.com
or www.wadv-oneofthem.com. The book
is also available on Borders.com, Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
For more information about One of Them: A First Responder’s Story,
contact Steve Centore directly at Scentore@yahoo.com.
WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED VETERANS, INC. and author Steven Centore chose
Arbor Books, Inc. (www.ArborBooks.com) to
design and promote One of Them: A First Responder’s Story. Arbor Books
is an internationally renowned, full-service book design, ghostwriting and marketing
firm.
(One of Them: A First Responder’s Story by Steven M. Centore; ISBN: 0-9801274-0-8;
$16.95; 208 pages; 5½”x 8½”; softcover; Worldwide
Association of Disabled Veterans, Inc.)
Web Site: http://www.wadv-oneofthem.com
Contact
Details: WORLDWIDE ASSOCIATION OF DISABLED VETERANS, INC.
500 Blackledge Circle, New Bern, NC 28562
Contact: Steven Centore Phone: (252)638-4790
E-mail: Scentore@yahoo.com
www.SteveCentore.com or www.wadv-oneofthem.com