My husband (a 9/11 survivor) told me that he had a Hillary dream

[lapucelle]

last night. He was back in the FDNY, and Hillary Clinton came to visit a firehouse that he was frequently detailed to after 9/11, due to the number of losses they had suffered. "I admire you very much," was all he could say to Hillary. He knew in the dream that she wasn't president because he also wanted to tell her how sorry he was.

For the record, Senator Clinton secured funding for medical monitoring for all the first responders who were not eligible for medical programs due to the way the original funding legislation was written and the unusual nature of their post 9/11 illnesses. She also worked with pharmaceutical companies to provide expensive medication at cost. “They didn’t leave anybody behind. We’re not leaving them behind.”

Not everyone is aware of Hillary's record for fighting the good fight in her long life of public service. My husband was assailed at a middle school football game in October by a woman who angrily berated him. “How dare you wear that button with that shirt?’ It was a Hillary button and an FDNY hoodie.

My husband is still alive and my family is not bankrupt due to Hillary’s efforts. When I explained this to a Trump supporter at work, he told me that if Hillary had not fought for the program, somebody else would probably would have done it. Who exactly?

My husband, long retired from the FDNY due to 9/11 related disability, drives an Uber to keep busy, stay engaged with the world, and earn a bit of money. The thing that annoys him most are the people who, wanting to talk politics, assume he’s a Trump supporter because of his age, race, and gender. He fought hard as a UFA union delegate for a Hillary for Senate endorsement way back in 2000 at the time of her first senate run. He’s been with her, and he’s still with her. And that’s probably one of the reasons why, after 38 years, I’m still with him.

[FakeNoose]

1. Thanks for sharing this

Your husband sounds like a gem.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. When I think of what we missed

I could cry. She would have been a great president.

[caroldansen]

3. The thing is that Hillary is compassionate and humble so she never blows her own

horn, so to speak. Therefore we all have to do that for her and let people know all that she did
for them, their families, their children, the country.

[kanda]

4. Thank you

Thank you to you and your husband and your family for so many things. Service to community, sharing this story, support of Hillary, reminding us all what Hillary did to serve community when others were not. Wish you many more happy years together.

[calimary]

6. Welcome to DU, kanda!

It just breaks my heart to see what we've lost - what we could have had. What we SHOULD have had! That Putin and his little puppet Donny-boy deprived us of. Those brains! I so ardently wanted those brains in the Oval Office. I knew they would help, and would accomplish great things, and solve some great problems and challenges.

Breaks my heart.

[NBachers]

21. Those brains, and that heart and talent. We're still getting our share of Hillary disparagement

around here.

They have absolutely no idea what they have thrown away, and the monster that they have created in her place.

Or maybe they do. Maybe that was their intention.

I love reading your story together. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[JHan]

5. K & R forever and ever

[mcar]

7. Bless your husband!

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Bless his union heart!

Hillary thanked him for his service in a dream. May there be no losses.

Thanks for sharing.

[furtheradu]

9. Thank You!

..for sharing this, & for Your Family's actions & sacrifice. Thank him, for me, too.
I also deal with assumptions from trumpers.. makes me sad & angry. And determined & vocal.
Blessings on You & Yours! 💖

[Stuart G]

10. k and r...thank you for posting...and thank you...

[kimbutgar]

11. You got married in the same year as I in 1989

You are a lucky women married to a man such as I who is a union man working for a major carrier surrounded by idiot chump supporters who gets that a strong woman like Hillary has always looked out for the best interests of working Americans.

[lapucelle]

16. I was married in 1978,

so it's coming up to 39 years, but the guy I'm married to took me to the senior prom (cue for everyone to go "awwwwwww&quot , so we're together for 44 years.

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Please thank him on behalf of friends who knew people that escaped the towers. The two

I knew didn't make it (one worked at Windows On the World, the other on Flight 11) but not for any lack of heroic firefighters' efforts.

[Boomerproud]

13. This thread makes me extremely sad. The woman at the football game and the other Trumpets

are just haters (and not just of HRC). What "America" do they want? As for Hillary Clinton, I pray she has real peace-she deserves it.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

14. I had a Hillary dream too.

Night before last. In my dream I walked by a TV with "Breaking News" and video of the convening Senate with Hillary up front flanked by leadership. There was no sound in my dream. But there was a 2nd breaking story of Trump/ence announcing resignations and images of various Russians shown with the words "proof positive". The TV went back and forth to the two stories. Then I woke up.

[NBachers]

22. Your dream gave me goosebumps.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

42. I know what inspired it.

Reading two stories before sleeping. Reports of Hillary coming "out of the woods" and Feinstein speaking to Los Angeles protesters about how he will "remove himself".

[ismnotwasm]

15. K&R

[kimmylavin]

17. Great story!

Thank you for sharing, and yes, your husband sounds like such a good man.

[PatrickforO]

18. This, in a broader sense, is one of the stories, of which I had not been aware,

that turned me into a proud Clinton supporter after my candidate, Bernie, lost in the primaries. Clinton showed how much she genuinely cares over and over through actions such as this.

I'm glad your husband is still alive and your family is not bankrupt because of her efforts. That's very good.

My heart truly weeps that the charlatan Trump was elected instead of this fine woman, who would have been a very good, very qualified POTUS.

[Akamai]

39. Yup! I too supported Bernie throughout the primaries and then strongly supported Hillary when she

won the primaries. She certainly has her heart and actions in the thoughtful directions.

I had a nightmare during the general election about Trump and my wife woke me up, telling me I had a nightmare. First time since I was 7. (When I was 7, I had an awful flu and dreamed of skeletons throughout the night. Now I am 67.)

Trump is the very stuff of nightmares and he is head of the our world.

Time indeed for nightmares.

[maddiemom]

19. Thank you for posting this-and all the best to your husband!

Could we PLEASE now get rid of the electoral college ( they don't deserve caps)? We now have nearly six times the reasons, or popular votes) than we did in 2000. The reasons for the existence of an electoral college were supposedly to keep an unstable person from being POTUS. Yet a completely inexperienced and (ravingly unhinged campaigner) was ushered in, despite the popular vote. It's not as if his stellar reputation among those who did business with him was a deciding factor. The "better angels of our natures" are obviously still in hiding.

[world wide wally]

20. America made a choice... And that is why "stupid American jokes" have replaced

"Stupid Polak jokes"
And I say that as both an American and a Polak

[Beacool]

23. I remember how hard Hillary fought to ensure that first responders were taken care.

She was also one of the first people to disagree with Bush's EPA head (the former governor of NJ, Christine Todd Whitman) that the air was safe to breathe, when it was not.

I remember the fire union's endorsement in 2008. It made me cry. They called her their hero.

I'm glad that your husband recognizes her efforts.

[lapucelle]

25. My husband tried hard

to get Hillary an endorsement in 2000. The UFA wound up not endorsing anyone that year.

During the union endorsement meeting, many expressed the sentiment that they didn't want to endorse Clinton because "there was something about her I just don't like".

My husband's response? "You don't like her because you know she's smarter than you".

Dead silence...

[greytdemocrat]

38. No offense

But that's a smart ass response from him and
I'm not surprised by the lack of an answer.

[Cha]

47. They found out how smart she was after 9/11 and got the funding

towards healing them, after the devastation that hit most of them on 9/11.

The OP's husband recognized and is grateful how much he owes her efforts and how much it meant to make their lives the best possible in the aftermath.
.

[lapucelle]

50. Let's just say he knew the room well.

When my husband was hired, and for many years after, there were no women in the FDNY.

He had already butted heads with the same group over "concern" about women coming on to the job. He called them out on that as well.

[Cha]

52. Good on your husband, lapcelle..

He's a gem!

[Beacool]

44. Yep, they abstained from endorsing either candidate.

As for your husband's response, it may have been flippant, but it's true. Hillary is always one of the smartest persons in any room.

[obliviously]

24. at this point, what difference does it make?"

[lapucelle]

27. That sounds hostile and dismissive in the context of my OP.

What difference does what make?

[obliviously]

29. Take it up with Hillary

It is a direct quote from her.

[lapucelle]

30. Yes I know.

It's the out of context quote that right wing talking heads exploited and flogged to try to tar Hillary over Benghazi. It's the misleading partial quote that helped Trump get elected

Not only is it a direct quote taken out of context, but it is also an irrelevant and non sequitur comment in the context of my OP.

But hey, you managed to get your right wing / anti Hillary talking point published on DU.

https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2016/07/gop-dishonestly-misuses-clinton-quote-about-benghazi

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2014/02/what-difference-at-this-point-does-accurate-context-make.html

[Hekate]

41. Still relitigating the primaries, are you? And calling the OP a liar, "making up special stories"?

As I already said, arent't you special, obliviously.

[Hekate]

36. Well, aren't you special

[fleabiscuit]

43. Is English your second language?

[Cha]

45. "What difference does it make"?! Are you being purposely

obtuse?

If you can't see what a Difference this makes to the OP and her husband for his very life and them not going bankrupt to give him the medical attention he needed after working on 9/11.. then you should have kept it to yourself.

My BIL wasn't so lucky.. he passed on from cancer working in the aftermath of 9/11 as an EMT.

[synergie]

48. It points out the toxic idiocy that some on the left and the right have

decided to imbibe and that gave us Trump.

So, we'll take it up with the elements that made Trump happen, they weren't the actual qualified candidate. Those still spewing right wing venom really need to understand just what they did, because at this point, if they still don't know and won't learn from their grievous mistakes, Right Wingers and their foreign cheerleaders win.

So, ask yourself, was that nonsensical jab echoing the hate-sphere worth it for you?

[JI7]

26. people like your husband are very important in fighting bigots

[lunasun]

28. Thank you for sharing and thank your husband for all he has done

[Lucinda]

31. ...

[adigal]

32. My husband was a fireman for the FDNY then, too, now out on disability also

and I remember Hillary did a lot of good for them.
Unlike that asshole Giuliani who KNEW their radios sucked and never got them better ones, leading to many of their deaths. And up where I live now, my husband said something nice about Hillary to two men who were raking her over the coals and got told to go back to the city "you NYC liberal." So much for all those nice things they used to say about his service.

[orangecrush]

33. K&R

I attended a memorial Mass for a firefighter today.

God bless you both.

[raven mad]

34. If I could shake his hand or offer a hug (consider it done, 5000 or so miles) I would.

And our Hill? YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!

[fun n serious]

35. Thank you

Hillary also did her part as a young woman to help take down Nixon. I love Hillary.

[Hekate]

40. All I can say is bless you both. And Hillary

[Cha]

46. That's a stunningly poignant story from 9/11, lapucelle..

beautifully told by you.

You can tell how much that time and Hillary's work meant to him by his still dreaming about it.. his very life.

Please relate my Mahalo to him, too, for his priceless Service on that tragic day.

[lapucelle]

49. Thanks, Cha.

My family was very lucky that day, and Hillary made a real difference to us in the aftermath. It's a small story, but it's our story. It could have been tragic, but isn't because someone with the means to help made the small and ordinary special. She didn't leave us behind.
Wait for it........in 3, 2, 1.......

Mahalo!

[Cha]

51. You were so fortunate because

you had someone working for you, who cared, like Hillary.

The republicans didn't want to help if I remember correctly.

I was living in upper state NY at the time and it was when I still watched tv.. which happen to be on The Today show at the time.. I was horrified in real time like the rest of the world.

I think every story from that day is important and vital to our psyche.. our spirits.

[niyad]

53. thank you for sharing a bit of your family us. thank both of you for all you have done, and

are doing.