reconciliation and if they don't, then i will give them an earful. if they don't we'll have to come back to d.c. and do what we do all the time for the last 17 years. either way we'll get it done because tens of thousands of people are counting on this. >> dana: john, one of the things i'm thinking about is that the length of time it has been, 20 years. some of these illnesses take a while to show up. you mentioned cancers. what kind of illnesses are manifesting now? >> that's a great question. you know, we absorb these toxins through the nose, mouth and skin. everybody's immune system is different like our fingerprints. a lot of these illnesses have latency periods of 15, 20, 25 years. the average age of the 9/11 responder was 39 1/2, 40 years old on 9/11. if you took it out of the