A Father Remembers His Son and Memorializes the Other Forgotten Heroes of 9/11
My son didn’t die on 9/11, but it was 9/11 that eventually killed him,” said Stephen Grossman when I spoke with him recently at the 9/11 Responders Remembered Park located in the town of Nesconset in Suffolk County, N.Y.
The late son he remembered was named Robert Grossman. Robert, I learned, was a NYC police officer assigned to the 28th Precinct in Harlem—a precinct in which he served since the day after he graduated from the NY Police Academy in February 1994 until the day in April 2006 that his illness forced him to leave the job and eventually resulted in his death on Oct. 9, 2009, at the age of 41.