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Memo to Dems like Abdul El-Sayed and Melat Kiros: My mom did NOT deserve 9/11

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My mother Audrey Valentine, who spent her career as a detective with the NYPD, was one of the first responders who ran toward the towers on Sept. 11, 2001, while everyone else was running away.

She worked in the city morgue for weeks afterward, identifying the remains of victims.

Some of those victims were her friends. Some were her colleagues.

She has carried the weight of that day for 25 years, in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder that never fully leaves.

In prurigo nodularis, a chronic skin condition is tied to her exposure at Ground Zero, a permanent bodily reminder of where she stood that morning.

In the memory of friends she will never see again.

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She didn’t deserve any of it. No American did.

That shouldn’t be a controversial sentence — but within the Democratic Party, it’s increasingly treated as one worth debating.

Take Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Michigan’s open US........

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