9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
Retired Lt. Col. Ryan Yantis will speak at Saluting Community Heroes, a veterans’ event on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at the Crow River Winery, discussing his survival at the Pentagon during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Cocktails will be served at 5:00pm, with dinner and the program following at 6:00pm. The cost to attend […]
START, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism and Insight Exchange Network will host a conference entitled, Domestic Terrorism & Mass Casualty Incidents – Best Practices in Preparing and Responding on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 and Thursday, November 16, 2017 at the Georgetown University Hotel & Conference Center in Washington, […]
Retired FDNY Lt. Gary Howard has serious issues with swallowing and spent this last summer undergoing chemotherapy and radiation at Sloan Kettering for oropharyngeal (mouth) cancer. Unfortunately, after treatments he is now back in Sloan and in need of blood transfusions. Gary was appointed to Squad 3 in 1970, transferred to Engine 28, Ladder 108, and finally Rescue 2 before his […]
World Trade Center survivor Leslie Haskin will be the featured speaker at the third annual Orange County Leadership Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:15am at Anthony’s Pier 9 in New Windsor, NY. Ms. Haskin was on the 36th floor of One World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, when […]
On Thursday, November 16, 2017, 10:30am, the FDNY Holy Name Society will hold the Brooklyn/Queens annual Memorial Mass for those FDNY members who have died over the past year. Mass will be said in Gerritsen Beach’s Resurrection Church. Resurrection Church 2331 Gerritsen Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11229
FDNY Firefighter Chris Ryan of Ladder 146 and his wife Dianna are raising money to buy a wheelchair van and to modify their home for their daughter, Emma Grace. Emma is 4 years old. She did not breathe spontaneously at birth and spent the first month of her life in the NICU. She has Ogden […]