NEVER FORGOTTEN: RIDE FOR FALLEN 9/11 VICTIMS
Brotherhood Ride honors fallen 9/11 Heroes
“NEVER FORGET”
Cyclists leave Naples, Fla., for their 1,600-mile ride to New York to honor the fallen heroes of 9-11 and their families. The 40 cyclists and their support staff of 15 will be on the road for 22 days, arriving at Ground Zero on Sept. 11. They’ll stop in Sumter on Monday night, where the community will welcome them with meals and shelter.
Sumter will host the participants in the 4th Annual Brotherhood Ride on Monday evening and Tuesday morning. The community is one of only three in the state selected to welcome the group of firefighters, police officers and EMS personnel who are riding bicycles from Florida to New York to honor emergency responders who have died in the line of duty.
This year’s ride will honor the 411 fallen heroes who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attack. Forty cyclists and 15 support staff will cover more than 1,600 miles in the 22-day trek before arriving at their final destination, New York City’s Ground Zero.
Source: The item Online
RUNNING FROM A PLUME OF DEBRIS. As the Towers fell and 100’s of floors came crashing down to earth, a plume of dirt and debris raced through the streets like hell-fire - as unsuspecting pedestrians ran from the moving cloud.
Photo Source: Rudy Magcover
LEST WE FORGET: VICTIMS OF SEPT. 11
The 2009 published list by the New York Daily News naming each of the nearly 3000 victims who perished due to the attacks on Sept.11, 2001.
HONOR: A DECADE GONE BY.
The wounds of Sept. 11 are still fresh for many Americans over-wrought with painful memories and unimaginable loss on that day. And for others still - the opposite - as life has moved forward and time heals, that tragic day sits idle as a memory long forgotten.
Honor all the victims who perished due to the events on Sept.11.
Honor those who sacrificed their own lives to save others that day.
Honor the trapped and fallen who simply were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Honor the families and friends of victims who bear the greatest pain and loss even still.
Honor the government officials, humanitarian organizations and volunteers who did what they could in the aftermath.
Honor those who are tirelessly working at Ground Zero - even today.
Honor. Do one thing. NEVER FORGET.
-Text By Robert L. Danforth; Image credit: unknown (internet)
9/11/01. After the Twin Towers fell, debris saturated the breathing air and strewn the remains of the worlds largest skyscrapers all over the streets of lower Manhattan. Many people walked out alive, but none unscathed by the affects of the day.
Personally, I recall that for weeks or even months after 9/11 a complex scent like a mixed potion of many things all indescribable could be smelled in the air as far north as Canal Street and to the East River.
-Robert L. Danforth
