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John Stewart describes his ongoing charitable work for emergency responders

John Stewart describes his ongoing charitable work for emergency responders

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September 18th, 2026

John Stewart describes his ongoing charitable work for emergency responders

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Jon Stewart says he never consciously decided to direct his philanthropic efforts toward first responders and their families.

์กด ์ŠคํŠœ์–ดํŠธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ž์„  ํ™œ๋™์˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ์‘๊ธ‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€์›๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ์˜์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ•œ ๋ฐ”๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

It is simply the way things happened to unfold.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค.

As the award-winning host of "The Daily Show," he said he wanted to support people who had devoted their lives to helping others, a cause he found meaningful.

"๋” ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ ์‡ผ"์˜ ์ˆ˜์ƒ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง„ํ–‰์ž์ธ ๊ทธ๋Š”, ์ž์‹ ์ด ์œ ์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐ ์‚ถ์„ ๋ฐ”์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"These are not X-Men," Stewart said.

"์ด๋“ค์€ ์—‘์Šค๋งจ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค," ์ŠคํŠœ์–ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"They are not superheroes.

"๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์Šˆํผํžˆ์–ด๋กœ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They are simply men and women who made a decision.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ๋‚จ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ผ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And that decision was, 'I will be there for people in their worst moments.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ '๋‚˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ตœ์•…์˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ๊ณ์— ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.

Whatever happens, that is what I have decided to do.'"

๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด๋“  ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•œ ์ผ์ด์•ผ'์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

His advocacy for the emergency responders who answered the call on 9/11 in 2001 culminated in intense lobbying and congressional testimony in 2019 aimed at preventing the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund from running out of money.

2001๋…„ 9ยท11 ํ…Œ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‘๊ธ‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€์›๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง€์›์€ 2019๋…„ 9ยท11 ํ”ผํ•ด์ž ๋ณด์ƒ ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐˆ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฉ๋ ฌํ•œ ๋กœ๋น„์™€ ์˜ํšŒ ์ฆ์–ธ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค.

He worked to close the loopholes in the PACT Act that had left U.S. service members exposed to radiation during the war in Afghanistan without access to medical coverage.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์•„ํ”„๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ์Šคํƒ„ ์ „์Ÿ ์ค‘ ๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„ ์— ๋…ธ์ถœ๋œ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ด ์˜๋ฃŒ ๋ณด์žฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“  PACT๋ฒ•์˜ ํ—ˆ์ ์„ ์—†์• ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

And these efforts are ongoing, as he announced that he would once again host the First Responders Children's Foundation's 'Roll Call of Heroes' ceremony on Friday, October 28, in New York's Times Square.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ 10์›” 28์ผ ๋‰ด์š• ํƒ€์ž„์Šคํ€˜์–ด์—์„œ ์—ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‘๊ธ‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€์› ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด ์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ '์˜์›… ๋ช…๋‹จ' ๊ธฐ๋…์‹ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งก๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The event is intended to commemorate National First Responders Day.

์ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์‘๊ธ‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€์›์˜ ๋‚ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

"You get to stand face to face with the honorees and tell them 'well done,' and you get to meet very young people who are involved in their communities," he said.

"๋‹น์‹ ์€ ์˜์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ด๋“ค๊ณผ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋งž๋Œ€๊ณ  ์„œ์„œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ '์ž˜ํ–ˆ์–ด'๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ์ Š์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"It's always good to be able to touch the foundation that sustains all of this."

"์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง€ํƒฑํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์— ๋‹ฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ข‹์€ ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Jillian Crane, the president and CEO of the First Responders Children's Foundation, said the nonprofit was delighted that Stewart would once again host this year's event.

์‘๊ธ‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€์› ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด ์žฌ๋‹จ์˜ ํšŒ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CEO์ธ ์งˆ๋ฆฌ์–ธ ํฌ๋ ˆ์ธ์€ ์ŠคํŠœ์–ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ–‰์‚ฌ์˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์ด ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ ๋‹จ์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ์˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"His advocacy for first responders, especially those battling 9/11-related illnesses, makes him the perfect host for this annual event," she said.

"์‘๊ธ‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€์›๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ 9ยท11 ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ณ‘๊ณผ ํˆฌ๋ณ‘ ์ค‘์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜นํ˜ธ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์ด ์—ฐ๋ก€ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์˜ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์ž๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"As the only national nonprofit dedicated to the children of first responders, we believe that shining a light on their parents โ€” heroes who serve our communities every day โ€” is a powerful way to express our gratitude."

"์‘๊ธ‰ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋Œ€์›์˜ ์ž๋…€๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์ „๊ตญ์  ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋กœ์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋งค์ผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ด‰์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์˜์›…์ธ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

๋ณธ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ๋Š” ๋ช…ํ™•์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํŽธ์ง‘ ๋ฐ ์ถ•์•ฝ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

If we cannot care for those who care for us, this reveals a deep and fundamental flaw in the very structures we establish when we build a society.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค ๋•Œ ์„ธ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ ์ž์ฒด์˜ ๊นŠ๊ณ  ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐํ•จ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Clearly, through the experience following 9/11, we come to understand just how unstable this experiment is if there are no people willing to rush toward collapse.

๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ 9ยท11 ์ดํ›„์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด, ๋ถ•๊ดด๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐˆ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์—†๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด ์‹คํ—˜์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•œ์ง€ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I believe that, combined with anger at a political system that is ready to praise them when needed and ready to discard them once they are no longer the focus, it generated momentum.

๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด, ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ์นญ์†กํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์ดˆ์ ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ฒ„๋ฆด ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •์น˜ ์ฒด์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ„๋…ธ์™€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด, ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It is like what they do when they arrive on the scene.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํ˜„์žฅ์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

You carry out a kind of triage, sorting out urgent needs from things that can wait.

๋‹น์‹ ์€ ๊ธด๊ธ‰ํ•œ ํ•„์š”์™€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ข…์˜ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์•„์ง€๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And I think children who have lost their parents in this kind of tragedy are a kind of top-priority triage case.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๋น„๊ทน์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์žƒ์€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์•„์ง€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

To be honest, even if it means hearing more sorrow, I think that getting involved is, in a way, a comfort for that pain.

์†”์งํžˆ ๋งํ•ด์„œ, ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์Šฌํ””์„ ๋“ฃ๊ฒŒ ๋ ์ง€๋ผ๋„ ๊ด€์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๊ณ ํ†ต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์œ„์•ˆ์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Action is a kind of antidote to helplessness and anxiety.

ํ–‰๋™์€ ๋ฌด๋ ฅ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ํ•ด๋…์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Generally speaking, living joyfully is a kind of quiet activism.

์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ, ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ํ™œ๋™์ฃผ์˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

That is, it means living each day and striving within it to be the best neighbor, citizen, and individual you can be.

์ฆ‰, ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์†์—์„œ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ด์›ƒ์ด์ž ์‹œ๋ฏผ์ด์ž ๊ฐœ์ธ์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The causes I became involved in arose naturally.

์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๋Œ€์˜๋“ค์€ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

And when I get involved in something, I want to do it thoroughly.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์— ๊ด€์—ฌํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So that it doesn't turn into charity tourism.

์ž์„  ๊ด€๊ด‘์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

I hope that I can be fully engaged, and that what I can offer becomes something they can actually make use of.

์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Stylist Bob Mackie, who dressed Cher and Marilyn and defined '70s glamour, dies at 87

Stylist Bob Mackie, who dressed Cher and Marilyn and defined '70s glamour, dies at 87

Stylist Bob Mackie, who dressed Cher and Marilyn and defined '70s glamour, dies at 87

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Movie Review: 'Practical Magic 2' Should Have Left the Original's Spellbook Untouched

Movie Review: 'Practical Magic 2' Should Have Left the Original's Spellbook Untouched

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Renoir Masterpieces Stolen from French Museum: Two Works Still Missing

Renoir Masterpieces Stolen from French Museum: Two Works Still Missing

Renoir Masterpieces Stolen from French Museum: Two Works Still Missing

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Elon Musk Documentary and Penรฉlope Cruz and Javier Bardem Thriller Premiere in Venice

Elon Musk Documentary and Penรฉlope Cruz and Javier Bardem Thriller Premiere in Venice

Elon Musk Documentary and Penรฉlope Cruz and Javier Bardem Thriller Premiere in Venice

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Jury convicts man of first-degree murder in 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur

Jury convicts man of first-degree murder in 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur

Jury convicts man of first-degree murder in 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur

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A Century of Voluntary Ethics Codes: Editors Revamp Them for the AI Era

A Century of Voluntary Ethics Codes: Editors Revamp Them for the AI Era

A Century of Voluntary Ethics Codes: Editors Revamp Them for the AI Era

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