Tunnel to Towers Foundation delivers cheer and a promise to Kentucky in wake of devastating tornadoes

By Kimberly | Published: December 22, 2021

About 50 active and retired FDNY firefighters have joined the Tunnel to Towers Foundation to help Mayfield, Kentucky recover from the recent tornadoes that devastated the community, reports Ann Marie Barron for the Staten Island Advance.

More than 15,000 toys were distributed just in time for Christmas, in addition to other supplies.

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation honors FDNY Firefighter Stephen Siller, who was off-duty on 9/11, but who rushed to the Towers to help, ultimately running through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in full gear. The foundation helps families of fallen cops, EMTs, firefighters, and military and assists after natural disasters.

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Failure to pass Biden’s Build Back Better plan threatens funding for 9/11 health care program

By Kimberly | Published: December 20, 2021

If the Build Back Better legislation does not pass Congress, the funding gap in the World Trade Center health program — which amounts to almost $3 billion — will have to be filled another way.

The funding was included in the Build Back Better bill as it has proven difficult to fund individual 9/11 bills.

Funding is needed as more people than expected have become ill from their work after the 9/11 terrorist attacks; many of the sick have expensive conditions such as cancer.

Sufficient funds are in the WTC health funding for next year, but after that, without more money, services to those who served after the terrorist attacks would have to be cut, reports Michael McAuliff for the New York Daily News.

Sadly, begging for funding for the desperately ill is very familiar to those sick from their work at the World Trade Center, as they have had to fight and plead for funds for more than 15 years now.

Some of New York’s politicians have promised, if necessary, to fund the WTC health program in other ways.

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Navy’s East Coast amphibious fleet completes move to Virginia

By Kimberly | Published: December 18, 2021

Our friends aboard USS ARLINGTON have moved their homeport to Norfolk, Virginia. ARLINGTON is the ship that was built to serve in honor of the 184 people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks who were aboard Flight 77 or in the Pentagon, reports Dave Ress for the Daily Press.

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