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Detective Sally Thompson died as the result of cancer that she developed following her assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
Detective Thompson had served with the NYPD for 20 years.
Her story
Sally A. Thompson was appointed to the New York City Police Department on 3 January 1983 and began her career on patrol in the 44th Precinct. She later served in the Organized Crime Control Bureau, the Narcotics Division and Bronx Narcotics. She was promoted to detective on 31 August 1990 and earned second grade on 24 June 1999. During her 20-year career she made 352 arrests, was recognized four times for Excellent Police Duty and received a Commendation. She retired from the 47th Detective Squad on 10 January 2003.
Detective Thompson died on 2 May 2018 of illnesses she contracted during the rescue and recovery after the World Trade Center attack of 11 September 2001. She was married to Detective Kenneth C. Thompson, who retired from the 44th Detective Squad in July 2001, and they had two children. Her name was added to the NYPD memorial wall at Battery Park City on 11 October 2019.
Survived by
She is survived by her husband.
The Years After
September 11, 2001
For eight months after the towers came down, men and women worked the site. Firefighters, police, paramedics, iron workers, truck drivers, cleaners, volunteers. They breathed what was in that air, and many of them have died of it since - cancers, lung disease, illnesses that took ten years or twenty to arrive.
More people have now died of September 11th than were killed on September 11th. They are not a footnote to the day. They are the day, arriving late.
A man who walked down eighty flights and out into the street, and who died of a cancer in 2031, was killed by the same attack as the man who never got out. This gate holds them together, because the same morning took them both.
On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.
Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.
None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.
At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.
