Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of the end of the cleanup at the World Trade Center site.
A special ceremony will be held tonight at 6:30 at the 9/11 Memorial.
The people whose hands carried the buckets, whose torches cut the steel, and whose searching discovered the bodies will be honored with choirs, wreath layings, color guards, and a line of officials including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, WCBS 880?s Rich Lamb reported.
Workers inhaled toxic fumes and often were covered in a poisonous grit.
Bloomberg said he is looking forward to shaking their hands, and called their efforts �nothing short of heroic.�
�We think back about the pile that those workers toiled on. It was one of just hellish proportions,� 9/11 Memorial President Joe Daniels told Lamb. �The fires burning for 99, more than 100 days, fathers down there, friends and brethren looking for remains and for the bodies of their loved ones.�
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