A 9/11 first responder, who commanded officers at Ground Zero and sifted through the rubble for 40 consecutive days, has taken his own life after a long and painful battle with lung disease.
The 61-year-old struggled with the disease despite having surgery and slept with an oxygen tank for the last 10 years because it was too painful to breathe.
“Sometimes he’d ask them, ‘How do you like the pizza?’ and they’d rave about it,” McCormick recalled. “And then he’d say, ‘Well, I’m actually the owner!’”
His friend remembered Greenwood as a “smart, funny“ man with ”not a bad bone in his body.”
Another of Greenwood’s friends, former detective Ralph Friedman, recalled the heroic work his friend did at Ground Zero.
“He was in charge of all the NYPD boots on the ground,” Friedman told the New York Post. “He’d be commanding the scene, but he also did grunt work—everybody pitched in. Everyone was sifting through the scene for bodies, body parts.”
“He would never do something like this unless he had no choice. And he had no choice,” Friedman said, reported the Post.
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