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“I found his comment to be disgracefully insulting,” said John J. McDonnell, a battalion chief and president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association in New York. “I personally saw him on the 11th, and I can’t tell the next time I saw him” at the site after the attacks.

Last month, the International Association of Fire Fighters (the parent organization of the U.F.O.A.) released a video titled, “Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend,” and has been appealing to its members not to support Mr. Giuliani’s candidacy. 

Giuliani Missteps in Imagery of Sept. 11
By SARAH WHEATON

Rudolph W. Giuliani sought yesterday to clarify comments of a day earlier in which he called himself “one of” the Sept. 11 cleanup workers and said he had been “at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers.” His statement has attracted sharp criticism from first responders and a rival campaign.