9/11 Just Claimed Another Life — The Firefighter Who Made Congress Care

“It was political, very political, believe me, and you know how political it got, but it was more not a Democratic thing, not a Republican thing, but an American thing,” Pfeifer said. “That’s what we had to drag into it — because these guys just didn’t get it, it was an American thing — trying to let them know it happened to America, not to us.”