Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.

Originally Published: One Very Tangled Post-9/11 Affair, May 23, 2004; pp. 36-41.

"Within days of 9/11 [2001], the New York Fire Department started consulting with outside therapists, trying to anticipate the pressures and problems that their community would face. Widows were briefed on the stages of grief; wives of firefighters were coached in how to detect signs of post-traumatic stress in their husbands and where to turn for help. The Fire Department's counseling unit consulted specifically with therapists who studied the rescue workers at the Oklahoma City bombing, only to find that even that comparison didn't turn out to be particularly useful, given how much danger the firefighters themselves had survived, how many of their own colleagues they had lost. Much of the recovery process would prove to be uncharted terrain, with certain upsetting twists--the marital musical chairs among widows and firefighters, for example--taking higher-ups entirely by surprise." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article reveals that "a surprising number of firemen have left their wives for the widows of their brethren who died at the World Trade Center" and profiles some of the families affected by such a breakup.

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