“Every firefighter in America wants to help,” Cetrino said.
Cloonan said he thinks it is only a matter of time before Boston firefighters are called into duty.
“With New York, it’s a matter of when they get tired,” he said. “That job is massive.”
Kerry reported “a sense of unity” in Washington, and he pledged that the terrorist attacks “will not go unpunished.”
On the same day that Rep. Martin Meehan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) were taken to task for criticizing President Bush’s leadership during the crisis, Kerry and Kennedy were hesitant to compromise the united-front image that Wasington leaders have projected in the past week.
“There is such a sense of solidarity in Washington and such a sense of unity,” Kerry told the firefighters.
When asked, Kennedy declined to comment on remarks made by Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) on Wednesday that the U.S. should “bomb the hell out of Afghanistan.”
“I’m concerned about the 80 families in Massachusetts that have suffered,” Kennedy told The Crimson. “I’m going to leave it up to others to speculate about things my colleagues have said.”
—Staff writer David C. Newman can be reached at dnewman@fas.harvard.edu.