A list of 9/11 victims broken out by World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 77, United Airlines Flight 175, United Airlines Flight 93 and the Pentagon. Victims on the list were included based on confirmed dead (2,948), reported dead (24) and reported missing (24) for a total of 2,996. The list was compiled by Alex Spektor and last updated on 8/8/2004.

While wondering what to do with the empty blue header space (formerly used for 468×60 banner advertising) atop each page of this website I combined the list of 9/11 victims along with links to Spektor’s tribute pages into a single file. With a few lines of code and this master list (saved and served using only our bandwidth), a different 9/11 victim name is being randomly displayed with every page view today, and perhaps the remainder of the week in this spot at the top of each page.

Please take a few minutes out of your busy day and click on the names and visit at least some of these tribute pages for the people who lost their lives 9/11. Understandably today Mr. Spektor’s site is moving slow, so patience is in order. There are pictures on Spektor’s site for many of the victims, comments and additional details about them. I thought about rolling this code into a Wordpress plugin to share with the masses, but there is a copyright notice on the bottom of the page. I attempted to email the webmaster contact at the site and the email bounced. If the author of that site (Mr. Spektor) would give me permission to roll this into a Wordpress plugin, I’ll release it to the masses under a GPL license. Otherwise, well, I’ll just share here for a few days and put it away until another 9/11 in the future.

The pain goes on.

The firefighters and first responders who helped rescue thousands that day in 2001 and later recovered the dead were to read the victims’ names for the first time. Many of those rescuers are now ill with respiratory problems and cancers themselves, and they blame the illnesses on exposure to the fallen towers’ toxic dust.

In response to addressing the health impacts of 9/11 like those mentioned in the piece above, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a new World Trade Center health website.

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