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Today we pay Tribute to SGM Lacey B. Ivory, USA who died on 9-11-01
Born November 15, 1958, 42 years old Lacey B. Ivory was born on November 15, 1958 in Marvell, Arkansas, the third of eight children born to John Ivory and Reola Gage. At the age of two, Lacey’s fami...
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In Memoriam Sept 11 - Capt. Paddy Brown (FDNY 3 Truck/Ladder 3)
Capt. Paddy Brown (FDNY 3 Truck/Ladder 3): “I’m on the 35th floor, okay, okay? Just relay to the command post we’re trying to get up. There’s numerous civilians at all stairwells, numerous bur...
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Cross at Ground Zero
From Our 9/11 Bravest ॥ Never Forget page... The rubble pile at Ground Zero was 10 stories high. Yet nothing was identifiable. Three weeks after the 9/11 attacks, and the scene in lower Manhattan was defined by this enormous mound of smoldering destruction. Anne Bybee struggled to find one thing of significance. “It was just this mangled rubble pile of nothing,” Bybee said. “I kept looki...
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Responding on September 11: Joel Pirrone Shares his Story
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the skies were clear. Joel Pirrone, now an emergency manager at FEMA’s National Response and Coordination Center, knew that a cloudless sky meant that a plane h...
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