Dr. Clinton Versus the Ground Zero Cough by Christine Lagorio, Village Voice
Joseph Lebretti and David O'Neal discovered that they lived on the same Pennsylvania country road while working the night shift together in the fall of 2001, digging through the wreckage at Ground Zero. Their lives ran parallel courses for three months with Lebretti, a Local 580 ironworker, and O'Neal, a day laborer in Local 79, consumed by the toxic life of the pile.
Since then, both men have been diagnosed with chronic lung disease.