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Cruising In To Help Rescuers

I don’t like Tom Cruise. I think he’s a crazy fanatic who could be replaced in any of his roles by a better actor. That being said, what he’s currently doing I do like, despite myself. Tom has been raising money for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a project he started with some others in 2002. The cash would go to workers who helped in 9/11 to help them deal with breathing problems and other maladies incurred as a result of working at Ground Zero. As Tom explains it, “Nearly six years later, many are still paying a price for their heroic service at the World Trade Center. This is a profound injustice.”

Almost 800 people have been treated by the program since it began, and each participant goes through a 30 day cleansing of their system which includes vitamins and sauna treatments. I imagine that considerable money is needed to fund this sort of treatment. What I like about this program is that it is focusing on doing something about a very real problem, a problem these people wouldn’t have had if they weren’t self-sacrificing heroes. If more programs in society worked like this, I think a great deal of good could be done.