A group called “Friends of the Late Captain Vernon Richard” have been trying since 2011 to rename a school in Brooklyn after the FDNY Captain who was killed while responding to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Captain Vernon Richard, FDNY
Despite their efforts and a petition,no school officials seem interested in renaming a school, writes Ginger Adams Otis in the February 1, 2016 edition of the Daily News.
