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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — As the satellite remembers the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, an lawsuit was held Saturday astatine M&T Bank Stadium that was overmuch bigger than football.
Justin Maddox was not yet calved erstwhile the tragic events of September 11 took spot 20 years ago, but acknowledgment to his father, William, it’s a time helium knows each about.
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“I’m present with my son, truthful helium doesn’t hide erstwhile I’m gone,” William Maddox said.
The father-son duo, with the English Consul Volunteer Fire Department, are joining firefighters, household and friends from crossed the state, arsenic they marque their mode astir M&T Bank Stadium, climbing the equivalent of the 110 stories of the World Trade Center. Justin is reasoning astir the heroes who gave their lives to transportation him through.
“I’m going to beryllium thinking, ‘Someone other did this and sacrificed everything,’ and I tin bash it too,” helium said.
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Now successful its tenth year, the memorial step ascent raises wealth for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. This year, they person much than 400 radical participating, each carrying a tag with the sanction and photograph of 1 of the 343 firefighters who mislaid his oregon her beingness that day.
“It gives everybody a accidental to marque a peculiar memorial, and it’s truly important that we ne'er forget,” said Mya McConnell, battalion main with the Baltimore City Fire Department.
And with each measurement taken, they are definite to remember.
“We person police, we person fire, EMS, homeland security. To me, if we forgot them, we mightiness arsenic good springiness up everything,” William Maddox said.
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Saturday, they raised much than $40,000 for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
Sean Streicher
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