Speaker 1: Welcome to the Good Stuff. I'm Jacob Shick and I'm
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Speaker 2: Jake is a third generation combat Marine and I'm a
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Speaker 1: Believe everyone has a story to tell, not only about
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Speaker 2: Each week, we invite a guest to tell us their story,
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Speaker 2: who they are and what they're doing to pay it
Speaker 2: forward and give back.
Speaker 1: Our mission with this show is to dig deep into
Speaker 1: our guest's journey so that we can celebrate the hope
Speaker 1: and inspiration their story has to offer.
Speaker 2: We're thrilled you're joining us again.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Good Stuff. We are so honored to
Speaker 1: share today's story with you, even though it's not an
Speaker 1: easy one to share. Today's guest is Danny Manning, a
Speaker 1: retired FDNY firefighter.
Speaker 2: I originally met Danny years ago in Kinsale, Ireland for
Speaker 2: the dedication of a plaque in honor of Lieutenant Michael
Speaker 2: Murphy for an organization called Irish Veterans, and he's become
Speaker 2: a very dear friend, more like family over the years.
Speaker 1: He is an incredible man who served the New York
Speaker 1: Fire Department for over twenty years and even saved his
Speaker 1: mother's life on Christmas Day in two thousand and seven
Speaker 1: after she suffered cardiac arrest and what has been coined
Speaker 1: the Miracle of Christmas. This episode with Danny recording in
Speaker 1: New York City was a spiritual experience.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. He was living in New York serving as a
Speaker 2: firefighter on September eleventh, two thousand and one. He's here
Speaker 2: to tell us about his experience that day and the
Speaker 2: days that followed at ground zero. How many years did
Speaker 2: you serve in the fire department?
Speaker 3: Twenty three years?
Speaker 2: Twenty three years. That's incredible. And you met your beautiful wife,
Speaker 2: a New York City girl, Mary Ellen from the Bronx,
Speaker 2: and we've been so blessed to know you and the
Speaker 2: entire Manning family, and today you're gracious enough to share
Speaker 2: with us a story that changed your life and the
Speaker 2: lives of countless other people forever on September eleventh, two
Speaker 2: thousand and one, when terrorists hijacked airplanes and flew them
Speaker 2: into New York City's Twin Towers. As a New York firefighter,
Speaker 2: you and your fellow first responders were on the front
Speaker 2: lines of this horrific day in history. And it would
Speaker 2: just be an honor for Jake and I to hear
Speaker 2: you tell your story of September eleventh, two thousand and one.
Speaker 3: So beautiful morning.
Speaker 4: I was off duty that day and Mary Ellen was
Speaker 4: watching TV and I was in the back bedroom and
Speaker 4: I heard a screech from her and a scream, and
Speaker 4: so I came running out and I said, what's the matter,
Speaker 4: And she said, a plane just hit the World Trade Center. Now,
Speaker 4: Mary Alln worked for United Airlines. One of her offices
Speaker 4: when she worked was in that one of those towers.
Speaker 4: She knows it well. So I looked at it and
Speaker 4: I said, Gee, this doesn't make sense. I'm looking out
Speaker 4: the window. It's a beautiful sunnay morning. And I said
Speaker 4: to Marianna about this must be a small plane that
Speaker 4: must have just lost its way. Because there's been incidents
Speaker 4: in Manhattan. I think I might have told you it
Speaker 4: was an incident years later. But it was New York
Speaker 4: Yankee who was flying a plane and he made a
Speaker 4: turn blown up in that East River, and he didn't
Speaker 4: turn sharp enough and he crashed into one of the
Speaker 4: high rise residential buildings. A small plane, you could understand
Speaker 4: something could go wrong, never expecting this to be a
Speaker 4: big jetliner.
Speaker 3: So watching on a TV.
Speaker 4: And then a short while after that, the news stories
Speaker 4: are all breaking. It's live, and we see the second
Speaker 4: plane hit the tower. And that's when I jumped up.
Speaker 4: She goeshe are going I says, we're under attack. This
Speaker 4: is no accident. I ran to the back bedroom. She goes,
Speaker 4: what are you doing. I said, I'm going to get
Speaker 4: dressed because they're going to need every hand they can
Speaker 4: down there.
Speaker 2: What did you say to her before you left?
Speaker 4: It's going to be a terrible day. We'll do our best.
Speaker 4: Because where we lived, you could see the smoke plume
Speaker 4: going over the water there. I knew I was going
Speaker 4: to something that was bigger than I have but been
Speaker 4: at before.
Speaker 2: When you're getting dressed, when you're taking your quick shower,
Speaker 2: what was going through your mind?
Speaker 4: Get down there quick? Like I said to Mary Ellen,
Speaker 4: that they're going to need every hand they can. You
Speaker 4: were hugging and kiss and out the door.
Speaker 1: What do you remember the very last thing you said
Speaker 1: to her?
Speaker 4: Honestly, it was a hug and embrace, and I said,
Speaker 4: I'll see you later.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to see you again.
Speaker 1: So I remember hugging my family before we left to
Speaker 1: go to Iraq and telling them you'll see you later,
Speaker 1: God willing, I'll see you later, might not see you later.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things that we almost take you
Speaker 1: for granted because it's just second nature.
Speaker 4: I could see what you were thinking in your head.
Speaker 4: You were going into a different type of situation than me.
Speaker 4: Your work would be a little bit more dangerous, and
Speaker 4: to ours was more structured routining. There's a mythology, if
Speaker 4: you might say, going into fires and fighting fires, but
Speaker 4: there's always the danger, and sure enough, that danger started
Speaker 4: early on in my career. Over the course of your career,
Speaker 4: depending on what neighborhood you're assigned to, you learn how
Speaker 4: to fight the fires. That the buildings are predominant your neighborhood,
Speaker 4: say right, so that the old timers would tell you
Speaker 4: when you come into the house, all right, everything you
Speaker 4: learned in school is fine, but we're going to teach
Speaker 4: you how we do it here.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: One of the guys was the old time, but he
Speaker 4: was an old, salty, old Irish guy. He took me
Speaker 4: out of his wing a little bit. He said, let
Speaker 4: me tell you, Danny, me boy, you got to be
Speaker 4: a little bit crazy to be doing this job. You
Speaker 4: understand that, right, I said, why is that? Jack He goes,
Speaker 4: you got to think about this. Everybody's running out and
Speaker 4: we're running in. I said, there you go, Jackson, I
Speaker 4: get it. Yeah, I'm a little crazy.
Speaker 2: I guess you hit the bill.
Speaker 4: So basically at that point we are is on the
Speaker 4: FDR drive down there, and I had seen that the
Speaker 4: emergency vehicles we soarting to roll down the highway. I
Speaker 4: could look out the window and see that they had
Speaker 4: shut it down full public transportation, and so I was
Speaker 4: able to run down there and get myself up to
Speaker 4: the highway. I flagged down some cars that were going by,
Speaker 4: and one fellow pulled over and picked me up. He
Speaker 4: was working with the Department of Homeland Security and they
Speaker 4: pulled over. He grabbed me and I said thanks, and
Speaker 4: we went down after I drive. Just after we got
Speaker 4: by the seaport a little. He was on the radio
Speaker 4: with his guys one of the towers. He lost communications
Speaker 4: with them, and that's when I looked to the right
Speaker 4: and I saw the first tower go down. He lost
Speaker 4: communications with his guys. They were in one of those towers.
Speaker 1: Even with all my life experiences, I can't imagine being
Speaker 1: in communications with your brothers and watching the tower that
Speaker 1: they're in crumble to the ground.
Speaker 2: What was the atmosphere like?
Speaker 3: Dark plume of smoke. You didn't hear much.
Speaker 4: There's a part down at the end of the FDR
Speaker 4: drive where you have to go under a tunnel. He
Speaker 4: tried to go down into the tunnel with the car,
Speaker 4: and the smoke was coming at us. So we got
Speaker 4: a little ways into the tunnel and people were trying
Speaker 4: to run through it. Some cars were on the other
Speaker 4: side of the tunnel, and we could see the people
Speaker 4: running towards us, covered in ash and things.
Speaker 3: And he went down and we couldn't go anymore.
Speaker 4: So brilliantly he did a three point turn in the tunnel,
Speaker 4: banged off the walls, and came back out again. We
Speaker 4: were there for a little while, and then some fire
Speaker 4: trucks started coming by, and I said to him, good luck.
Speaker 4: I hope I see you again, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: jump on the back of one of these fire trucks.
Speaker 4: I did that, and if I went with the men,
Speaker 4: I jumped on the backstep to guys.
Speaker 3: I didn't know who they were. They just jumped on
Speaker 3: with them. And if we went.
Speaker 2: So you come out of the tunnel, you get out
Speaker 2: of the car because you see the fire trucks, you
Speaker 2: go hop on with your brothers. What's the atmosphere at
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 3: Complete chaos. I've never seen the witness before.
Speaker 4: And because of the magnitude of the amount of people,
Speaker 4: the fire, the smoke, all right, that's many times magnified
Speaker 4: as well, but because the magnitude of people rushing towards us,
Speaker 4: with the looks on their faces covered in dust, and
Speaker 4: the horror on their face, and the screaming and you know.
Speaker 3: Wailing and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: At that time, there was still bad things going on
Speaker 4: in the other tower, so we're trying to get through
Speaker 4: all that to just start helping it. There was nobody
Speaker 4: in charge but the command center, I believe at that
Speaker 4: time might have been wiped out, so the communication was
Speaker 4: difficult at that time, and so everybody was just trying
Speaker 4: to team up and try and help somewhere.
Speaker 3: The breathing was difficult.
Speaker 4: I didn't have a mask because I came obviously keep
Speaker 4: them home, so I had know Scott Packer, right, so
Speaker 4: that mattered. None of the women and children and men
Speaker 4: running had it either, so they're going the other way.
Speaker 4: And then I counted the one woman who was in
Speaker 4: complete distress, and she was carrying a young baby, and
Speaker 4: I said, oh, let.
Speaker 3: Me help her.
Speaker 4: She was hysterical because she lost her mother and her
Speaker 4: other daughter. I said, They asked what he looked like,
Speaker 4: you know, give me a description. I'll try and see
Speaker 4: if I me and so many guys keep try and
Speaker 4: find them. But I said, in the meantime, I said,
Speaker 4: we have to protect this baby here. Got her and
Speaker 4: the baby into one of the fire department cars. I said, no,
Speaker 4: you just sit here. I said, I'll go look for
Speaker 4: your mother and your child. Never did find them. The
Speaker 4: don't know to this day whatever happened with that. But
Speaker 4: at least I know that woman and baby made it,
Speaker 4: and hopefully so did her mother and her other child.
Speaker 4: But then there's no way of knowing, right, that's the uncertainty.
Speaker 2: Of that day, so many people, so much chaos, and
Speaker 2: what did you do next?
Speaker 4: People that were injured, we were trying to help them
Speaker 4: to like they were trying to set up triarge areas
Speaker 4: and just get people comfort them, some of them, you know,
Speaker 4: me and many other guys, police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians.
Speaker 3: Everybody was just doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: Like I said earlier, there was no real structure to
Speaker 4: any of it.
Speaker 2: So after you help this lady and you turn back
Speaker 2: to go even further into the scene, what are you.
Speaker 5: Seeing As a dust stars to settle, and you look
Speaker 5: up and you can see pokes of sunshine that used
Speaker 5: to be filling the whole sky earlier with blue sky,
Speaker 5: and so there's a dust was settling, you could see,
Speaker 5: and things started to clear up, but it was still
Speaker 5: so dusty.
Speaker 3: Everybody's eyes were practically shut.
Speaker 4: It's like almost being a little bit of a vacuum
Speaker 4: where you see it going on in slow motion, but
Speaker 4: it's not sol emotion going on for a long time,
Speaker 4: people running and screaming, and the rubble was everywhere from
Speaker 4: the first tower coming down. Eventually there was people teaming
Speaker 4: up and you'd see police officers and other people are
Speaker 4: squating people, trying to get them into other buildings to
Speaker 4: shelter them because we didn't know what was coming next.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So at this point, after you've dived right into this
Speaker 2: whole scenario and you're there, and like you said, it's
Speaker 2: almost surreal. It sounds like it's going in slow motion,
Speaker 2: but it's not. It just keeps going on and on,
Speaker 2: and it's dusty. Breathing was difficult. Everything was difficult. And
Speaker 2: do you have time to let any of the emotion
Speaker 2: hit you.
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't a time to sit and reflected. You
Speaker 3: just you couldn't.
Speaker 4: You were in work mode. Yeah, you had to go
Speaker 4: full speed ahead. Time wise, I don't. It's all documented,
Speaker 4: but to me, it just there's no time frame to
Speaker 4: the whole thing.
Speaker 2: What happened. When the second tower fell.
Speaker 4: Everybody knew it was time to start moving and stop running. Well,
Speaker 4: the experiencing world didn't do much good that day. Does
Speaker 4: this matter how lucky you were which way you ran?
Speaker 4: I ran one way and I made it, and another
Speaker 4: guys ran another way and didn't make it.
Speaker 3: Dove under a truck.
Speaker 4: The debris came down on there, and I was down
Speaker 4: there and I didn't have an air pack, and i
Speaker 4: have my nose to the ground and I'm saying, no,
Speaker 4: this isn't going to end like this. And people started
Speaker 4: just moving some debris and one of his got us
Speaker 4: out of there, dragged this out.
Speaker 3: I remember looking up and you will see was like.
Speaker 4: Papers floating through the sky, like feathers. I said, well,
Speaker 4: it's eerily quiet. I'm looking around. I'm saying, we have
Speaker 4: all the people, we has, all the equipment. Just towers
Speaker 4: were filled with sinks, computers, things in the restaurant desks,
Speaker 4: everything that would fill a building like we're sitting in now.
Speaker 4: None of it was there. It was all pulverized. That's
Speaker 4: one memory I'll never forget. Me and another guy I
Speaker 4: teamed up with, a dear friend of mine, name was
Speaker 4: Ray Phillips. He was in rescue three and we had
Speaker 4: teamed up together and we heard a pass along going off.
Speaker 4: Now that's what we's attached to our airpacks, and it's
Speaker 4: the activates of a man's down, whether you get down
Speaker 4: in a fire or whatever, the incident is a guy
Speaker 4: if he stayed motionless for a while, it activates. So
Speaker 4: what happened was we could hear it off in the
Speaker 4: distance and very distinct piercing sound. So I said, it
Speaker 4: must be a brother down somewhere or over here. So
Speaker 4: we went looking from and I went around the building
Speaker 4: expecting going to be there. He wasn't there, but the
Speaker 4: airpack was, or he had dropped it and obviously ran
Speaker 4: or whatever and made his way. So I grabbed and
Speaker 4: I said, well, say, I'm going to use it now.
Speaker 2: So I put it on because all this time you've
Speaker 2: been breathing in the dust.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't have any airpack. It was good to
Speaker 3: have that. I sat there for hot and.
Speaker 1: Took a lot of ye got some fresh oxyge.
Speaker 3: So he left it there for me.
Speaker 1: That's like we say in the Marine Corps gear drift
Speaker 1: as a gift.
Speaker 4: There you go. And it was one part of the
Speaker 4: story there was that the guys from ma Fi House
Speaker 4: from Barrios Bravers fifty three and forty three were involved
Speaker 4: in a rescue where there was guys from another company
Speaker 4: who had gotten this woman and they were able to
Speaker 4: get her down.
Speaker 3: She was a trap to herself and up on the stairway.
Speaker 4: There and they were able to get her down and
Speaker 4: when the collapse happened the way they were with the
Speaker 4: core collapsing around them. They were in this little void,
Speaker 4: and so there was transmission. They were able to locate
Speaker 4: where they were, and I think it was called the
Speaker 4: Miracle Latter six and the guys from my company formed
Speaker 4: a chain line and were able to make it today
Speaker 4: and get them out. I was part of that, and
Speaker 4: that was that was a great survival story that these
Speaker 4: guys heroically did to witness.
Speaker 3: That was something absolutely.
Speaker 4: There was an area where we had made our way
Speaker 4: into a void and we were getting radio transmissions that
Speaker 4: we were in a dangerous spot, and they kept saying,
Speaker 4: you got to pull out, you got to pull out.
Speaker 4: I was a little bit further back than some of
Speaker 4: the other guys from the company were up ahead of me,
Speaker 4: and they spotted a guy that was they could.
Speaker 3: See the helmet. It was a chief. He was pinned
Speaker 3: in there. I couldn't tell whether he was alive or not.
Speaker 4: We had visual on him, and they kept trying to
Speaker 4: pull us out and pull us out, and guys wouldn't leave,
Speaker 4: and finally we had to go. We had to pull
Speaker 4: out because of the imminent collapse and everything. And it
Speaker 4: wasn't like he was laying there was screaming for help
Speaker 4: or anything. He was unconscious. We didn't know if he
Speaker 4: was alive or dead, but we were trying to just
Speaker 4: get to him. At one point, I got my shoulders
Speaker 4: this located. So they went up to the hospital and
Speaker 4: all emergency people from around the city was just like
Speaker 4: I did. We're volunteering going to the hospitals to help
Speaker 4: Manhattan there because they figured they're.
Speaker 3: Going to need all hands on deck.
Speaker 4: And I remember getting taken to the hospital and they
Speaker 4: were all standing outside with the stretches out on the
Speaker 4: sidewalks and how many people coming?
Speaker 3: Where's everybody? Well, there's not enough people to come.
Speaker 4: A lot of them just didn't make it out anyway.
Speaker 4: They got patched up and then went back down there,
Speaker 4: went back to work, and at that point it was
Speaker 4: total rescue mode. More and more reinforcements were showing up,
Speaker 4: so we just went to work. I hooked up again
Speaker 4: with forty three truck they were down there, so worked
Speaker 4: with them. They were grabbing units them all over the
Speaker 4: city at this point and relieving and rotating people that
Speaker 4: were on duty active guys and shifting and people coming
Speaker 4: in to help out. It was one night and they
Speaker 4: were being relieved on their shift and I hopped on
Speaker 4: the back of the truck with the guys. At that point,
Speaker 4: Lower Manhattan was all just encapsulated. They had the military
Speaker 4: out there, the National Guard, you had all the police
Speaker 4: intelligence units. Everything was sealed off, so nobody was coming
Speaker 4: into the as you would relate to into your perimeter.
Speaker 4: This is a distinct memory that will always stay with me,
Speaker 4: and I've often sold us to people. We leave and
Speaker 4: we're just laying all over the top of the rig
Speaker 4: on the hook and ladder, and guys are beat up
Speaker 4: and exhausted. All along the West Side Highway there people
Speaker 4: are lined up signs and they're cheering. We're just laying
Speaker 4: around on the rig and taking it all in. And
Speaker 4: it was just amazing the people that came out of
Speaker 4: all the buildings to, you know, give us this boost
Speaker 4: and we go down and we come down along that
Speaker 4: and that went on for my olden and we come
Speaker 4: down Union Square and there's a big almost rally going
Speaker 4: on in Union Square. Hiabetes really emotional. And the way
Speaker 4: equated to people when I tell the story is if
Speaker 4: you watch the old movies of World War Two when
Speaker 4: the tanks are rolling into the villages, in Italy and
Speaker 4: France and all the women and coming out waving the
Speaker 4: flags and handing battles of wine to the soldiers. And
Speaker 4: that's how it felt to me, that crowd. It's like
Speaker 4: you just liberated the city, but they knew we just
Speaker 4: where we came from, just then, and they were giving that.
Speaker 3: Back to us.
Speaker 1: Significant trauma can either be a great divider or a
Speaker 1: great uniter. And I remember nine to twelve very very well,
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, no one in the world, no
Speaker 1: one in the world, would dare mess with us right now,
Speaker 1: because we were all one. It didn't matter race, colored, creed, religion.
Speaker 1: If you lived under that red, white, and blue, you
Speaker 1: were untouchable.
Speaker 3: It really was true. And you saw the whole city
Speaker 3: put up like.
Speaker 2: That, the whole country. Like I'm sitting here thinking, Jake
Speaker 2: and I always talk about the America of nine to twelve.
Speaker 2: You were still at ground zero on nine to twelve,
Speaker 2: entire day, praying, hoping, searching for any signs of life,
Speaker 2: digging through the dust and the decimation. And meanwhile, yes,
Speaker 2: the rest of the country was uniting. So that's exactly
Speaker 2: what should have happened. When you came out of the
Speaker 2: perimeter and.
Speaker 1: You know it's beautiful, Danny, is that you described that,
Speaker 1: and like, it chokes me up thinking about it, even
Speaker 1: though you were leaving ground zero with your brothers and
Speaker 1: you got all that love. We felt that down in
Speaker 1: Texas during a time of unbelievable trauma and tragedy. It
Speaker 1: was one of the most beautiful, soul filling moments of
Speaker 1: my life. And I remember thinking, this is why my
Speaker 1: grandparents loved this country the way they do. And I
Speaker 1: thought I had a pretty firm grip on love of country.
Speaker 1: On nine to twelve, it was a big dose of
Speaker 1: you get it or you don't. It was all inspiring
Speaker 1: the watch.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that now coming from you guys, because I
Speaker 4: know there's many of those stories around.
Speaker 3: I saw the.
Speaker 4: Gratitude and the caring, the genuine concern and condolences that
Speaker 4: were coming from around the country and around the world.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, my family in Ireland, they couldn't contact us,
Speaker 4: my brother Patrick as if I'm in the South Bronx,
Speaker 4: and they didn't know where we were that day, if
Speaker 4: we were there, if we were in those buildings. So
Speaker 4: I remember that day being down there. I said, well, Jesus,
Speaker 4: that old Patrick's not here, you know, and I was
Speaker 4: worried for my brother.
Speaker 1: I think it's so important that the listeners understand too
Speaker 1: that you're doing this job saving people who've never met,
Speaker 1: all at the same time wondering it's your loved ones
Speaker 1: rather it's your blood brothers or your brothers through work,
Speaker 1: how they're doing while you're trying to save other people.
Speaker 1: That's the epitome of selflessness and courage all at the
Speaker 1: same time. And it was on display not only that day,
Speaker 1: but for the days and weeks after. When you feel
Speaker 1: like you don't have more to give, you always have
Speaker 1: more to give.
Speaker 2: So the last thing you said to Mary Ellen, will
Speaker 2: see you later. Yeah, tell me about that homecoming.
Speaker 3: My son and daughter they weren't home. They've been in school,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: At that time, some of the schools running into lockdown
Speaker 4: road around the city, and so they didn't come home
Speaker 4: for a while, and they didn't you know, they didn't
Speaker 4: see me for two days. So it was one time
Speaker 4: I was up on a pile and a guy was
Speaker 4: leaving and he was going down and I said to
Speaker 4: me a favor because it was no self service and
Speaker 4: stuff like that. I said, I didn't know the guy
Speaker 4: but I said, you can remember Cole my family let
Speaker 4: them know I'm okay.
Speaker 3: I came home.
Speaker 4: I was still pretty covered in dust and everything, and
Speaker 4: it was just not many words, a lot of hugs.
Speaker 1: You're having more than one, some more of the grim Reaper. Myself,
Speaker 1: I believe in the in the will to live, and
Speaker 1: I believe God willing if you're in a circumstance where
Speaker 1: clearly the poor souls that were tried than those buildings
Speaker 1: that couldn't get below a certain floor before they collapsed,
Speaker 1: much different circumstance. And that's why I say, God willing
Speaker 1: have provided the circumstance to say I'm not going out
Speaker 1: like this, not today, not yet. I believe in that will.
Speaker 3: And I bet you that has fueled a lot of guys
Speaker 3: over the years.
Speaker 1: Guarantee you, because I know a lot of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I was getting at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in this particular day, there's guys who did heroic things.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm one that doesn't take that word hero
Speaker 4: too easily. I don't feel comfortable with it a lot.
Speaker 4: The way it's used in today's day and age.
Speaker 1: I feel like the word has been overused. My gosh,
Speaker 1: it has been diluted completely, and it's really pissed me off. Agreed,
Speaker 1: because to me, most of the true heroes I know
Speaker 1: are no longer will.
Speaker 4: That's where I was getting at on this day. There'll
Speaker 4: be heroic things that would that these guys aren't here
Speaker 4: to talk about. But knowing some of them personally myself,
Speaker 4: I know what they were doing and tried to accomplish.
Speaker 4: There was one guy who was a dear friend of mine,
Speaker 4: Patty Brown. Patty was a legend on the job and
Speaker 4: matt Facktown, where I lived, is a sign a walk
Speaker 4: Patty Brown Walk, much decorated Vietnam veteran, much decorated New
Speaker 4: York City firefighter. I wasn't there to tell it, so
Speaker 4: I'm telling this story like second hand and third hand.
Speaker 4: But I suppose Patty was taking his men up and
Speaker 4: going up to the tower and somebody from the command says, so, Patty,
Speaker 4: where you are going?
Speaker 3: What are you doing? Patty?
Speaker 4: He says, We're going up and he goes, you can't
Speaker 4: go up there, turned him and says something like, what
Speaker 4: are you nuts? This is what we do and know
Speaker 4: if they went and reportedly Patty got to the highest
Speaker 4: floor of the towers, than anybody. Found a woman but
Speaker 4: didn't make it back down. But he had radio transmission
Speaker 4: from him way up and he got the highest events
Speaker 4: anybody up there, and he found people to help radio transmission.
Speaker 4: I got somebody and him and this man never made
Speaker 4: it back down. To me, that's heroic, and that's a
Speaker 4: hero A dear friend of mine who came on the job.
Speaker 4: But Bernie, his son, was in one of the wolfices
Speaker 4: up there and working in Canifit Cheryl and called his
Speaker 4: father and said, Dad.
Speaker 3: I'm stuck come up here.
Speaker 4: And you know, Bernie's his home and rockaway watching on
Speaker 4: TV and seeing the whole thing unfold, and he said,
Speaker 4: what should I do?
Speaker 3: And he said to him go up to the roof.
Speaker 3: He said, get to it. If you can't get you
Speaker 3: and your people up to the roof, our guys will
Speaker 3: get you up there.
Speaker 4: At that point, there was a unit that was trained
Speaker 4: to go with the helicopters and repel down for highbrids rescues.
Speaker 4: You know, he knew about that. He said, our guys
Speaker 4: will get you there. Eventually, they'll put the fire out there.
Speaker 3: Get up to you.
Speaker 4: Shortly after that phone call with his son, watched the
Speaker 4: tower go down in front of him on it TV
Speaker 4: with his son, and I said, Bernie, you told your
Speaker 4: son the same thing I would have told mine.
Speaker 3: Don't kick yourself for this. That was the only option,
Speaker 3: and it was the right option.
Speaker 4: And the best option. It was out of everybody's hands
Speaker 4: in that situation.
Speaker 3: For sure. He did the right thing, tell them where
Speaker 3: to go, and that was the only way to go.
Speaker 4: It was a few days later when I was back
Speaker 4: there and Father Michael was I consider a close friend.
Speaker 4: He was Patty Brown's very close friend, and both of
Speaker 4: them died did that day. They were very close him
Speaker 4: and Patty and I had often said to Father Michael,
Speaker 4: is you know the Irish connection and everything. I said,
Speaker 4: Father Mike, you know, anything happens to me, you'll be
Speaker 4: the one to send me off, And he well, I'll
Speaker 4: look after that handy, but I don't you have to
Speaker 4: worry about that.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 4: We were at the top of one of the corps
Speaker 4: and it was all through the night, and we found
Speaker 4: some guys from Squad eighteen that were down buried in
Speaker 4: one of the cars and the voids at the top.
Speaker 4: Father Michael's uneral was coming up that morning. Many days later,
Speaker 4: we had a thing where if we found somebody one
Speaker 4: of our guys, everything stopped. You sent the word down
Speaker 4: through the chain line of all the guys. And we
Speaker 4: found some guys, some Squad eighteen. So you stop, you
Speaker 4: get on the radio, you get word down. We get
Speaker 4: them out and give the honor of the company to
Speaker 4: come and get their own men and bring their own
Speaker 4: men down, no matter where you were, whatever the company
Speaker 4: from Brooklyn's that now in Brox didn't matter.
Speaker 3: So we got them out.
Speaker 4: We waited for Squid eighteen to come and get their men,
Speaker 4: and it took them a long time they come up
Speaker 4: and get us. So I couldn't get the father Michael's
Speaker 4: schunerl because of that, because I wanted to say, with
Speaker 4: the guys up there that morning, the heroes to me
Speaker 4: of all the guys that didn't make it over the years.
Speaker 4: And then I know personally my dear friend Larry, he
Speaker 4: was a big powerful man. It was early, it was
Speaker 4: only a year on the job, early in my career.
Speaker 4: He dragged me into to a fire and we went
Speaker 4: and rescued a woman on the second floor. I was
Speaker 4: a proby in those days. We didn't have the mask
Speaker 4: or anything, you know, And he grabbed me and we
Speaker 4: went in without a hose line. We became a rescue
Speaker 4: you know truck because the truck wasn't on the scene.
Speaker 4: We rescued this woman. She found her unconscious on the
Speaker 4: second floor, brought her out. He didn't bother putting us
Speaker 4: in for any metals or anything like that. He said,
Speaker 4: that's this is what we do, kid, you know, this
Speaker 4: is welcome to the job. I was just happy to
Speaker 4: make it in it out with her and rescue this woman.
Speaker 4: And he became my dear friend, and I learned early
Speaker 4: on from him that it's not about that, you know,
Speaker 4: somebody's in help.
Speaker 3: Nobody does it for any of that.
Speaker 4: And then his best friend was this fellow Larry Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 4: who I knew working in one of the bars I
Speaker 4: was involved with. It was nineteen eighty. One of the
Speaker 4: guys was stuck up in the chef Way in Harlem.
Speaker 4: They lowered Larry to go down and get you every frisbee.
Speaker 4: So they were a bad jam and the guy was
Speaker 4: stuck just like those pictures we showed you last night,
Speaker 4: the fireouse and the guys stuck in the windows with
Speaker 4: the flames. That was another scenario like that in the
Speaker 4: chefway in the tenement, and they lowered Larry on a
Speaker 4: rope to go get Jerry, and he got him, grabbed
Speaker 4: Jerry and they started lowering him down and the rope
Speaker 4: snapped and the two of them fell five stories to
Speaker 4: their death.
Speaker 3: Larry had eight.
Speaker 4: Kids, whole little That was my early introduction to the
Speaker 4: tragedy of the job. And it hit home because he
Speaker 4: was a friend.
Speaker 2: Right, What originally made you want to be a fighter?
Speaker 3: Fighter?
Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good story. I never had any clue
Speaker 4: about being a firefighter. And I was working in the
Speaker 4: bars out in the Hamptons and some of the summer
Speaker 4: clubs out there. This one bar was working in. These
Speaker 4: guys came and were working there and it turned out
Speaker 4: they were firemen, but they were laid off. And it
Speaker 4: was this friend of mine, Danny Noonan and Tommy Corning.
Speaker 4: So they we're picking up work wherever they can get it.
Speaker 4: You know, the fire department had gone through layoffs.
Speaker 3: The city.
Speaker 4: I was in a bad time in those days, and
Speaker 4: they gave a lot of firemen pink slips and they
Speaker 4: didn't know whether the next paycheck was going to come from.
Speaker 4: They're telling me, and we get to know each other
Speaker 4: and working out there, and they go they said, Danny,
Speaker 4: there's a test coming up.
Speaker 3: He said, you should think about taking the Finement's test.
Speaker 3: I go, really, wow, there's something I didn't think about.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: Then I thought to myself, I said, wait a second.
Speaker 4: These guys just got laid off by the city. They
Speaker 4: should be really pissed off. And here they are telling
Speaker 4: me you got to take the test for this job.
Speaker 3: It's a great job.
Speaker 4: So I said, you know Jesus right, if they're telling
Speaker 4: me that, this must be a really good job and
Speaker 4: they must love it.
Speaker 3: Sure enough, I took the test.
Speaker 4: And I trained for it with a bunch of my
Speaker 4: buddies from the neighborhood, my brother Patrick. We all trained together,
Speaker 4: and we all did well enough to get on the job.
Speaker 3: I had a goal of it.
Speaker 4: I hope I can get into the top thousand because
Speaker 4: the matter, boy, you work, how you did under written
Speaker 4: did on the physical. I said, I'm going to work
Speaker 4: really hard to get into I want to crack a thousand.
Speaker 4: After all of a sudden, done my listening was a
Speaker 4: thousand and three. I visited by three. But because of
Speaker 4: those two guys Tommy and Danny speaking the way they
Speaker 4: did of the job, the brotherhood, the times you know
Speaker 4: that they had on the job before they were laid off.
Speaker 4: I said, there has to be something to this, and
Speaker 4: that's what I did it. It's a lifestyle being a firefighter.
Speaker 4: I was fortunate to work in really, really great firehouses,
Speaker 4: a lot of people that taught me so many good things,
Speaker 4: and I looked up to a lot of guys on
Speaker 4: the job. I was fortunate to have that kind of
Speaker 4: leadership and friendship and brotherhood. It's more of a lifestyle.
Speaker 3: You don't stop being a firefighter when you retire, and you.
Speaker 2: Don't stop doing the things that you like to do,
Speaker 2: the heroism, the survivors. While we also mourn and remember
Speaker 2: the great loss, How did this day change you?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 4: You just appreciate things more being a firefighter or a
Speaker 4: civilian or anything, no matter who you were that day,
Speaker 4: it just gave you a different outlook how things are,
Speaker 4: how things could be at any moment.
Speaker 3: There was always a danger.
Speaker 4: I'm sure some of the wives of guys going off
Speaker 4: to work were, you know, saying good bye in the morning,
Speaker 4: and you know, some of the guys didn't come home.
Speaker 4: For a lot of people, the appreciation of everyday life.
Speaker 4: My god, if that didn't change your outlook, what the
Speaker 4: heck would.
Speaker 3: One of the things.
Speaker 4: I'll always equate to that and you would appreciate this, Jake.
Speaker 4: That's our job, you know, that's we sign up to
Speaker 4: do the things we see. The things we do for people.
Speaker 4: You don't bring them home to your family at night,
Speaker 4: you don't really talk about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we signed up for that, just like you did.
Speaker 4: The things that the women, the children, the men, the
Speaker 4: everyday civilians that they witnessed that day. Only people I
Speaker 4: say that go to war or do the kind of
Speaker 4: work that we do should have seen this stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Those are the people I feel to this day probably
Speaker 4: carried out a little tougher the young kids what they witnessed.
Speaker 4: Nobody should have seen that horrific stuff that went on
Speaker 4: that day except people like us. That to me is
Speaker 4: the untold sadness, maybe a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: And I believe too that that's why people like us
Speaker 1: we have an unspoken connection. To me, it's very sad
Speaker 1: that it is mainly because of very morbid reasons we
Speaker 1: have to experience or have experienced, horrific things that most
Speaker 1: people shouldn't have to experience when people say the brotherhood.
Speaker 1: I can look at a guy like you and it's unspoken,
Speaker 1: but I get it. I remember being in the hospital
Speaker 1: my father telling me your marines are weird, and I
Speaker 1: just remember looking at them and saying, there's no way
Speaker 1: you could understand. And I'm thankful for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's certain things you got to leave out.
Speaker 2: September eleventh, two thousand and one, the day the world
Speaker 2: stopped turning, and you as one of fdn y's finest
Speaker 2: and with Irish roots, who proudly served your country and
Speaker 2: went in on that horrific day and came out and
Speaker 2: did so much and have done so much since to
Speaker 2: give back to humankind. We're just we do salute you,
Speaker 2: and we love you and we thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're an exceptional human being. For guys like me,
Speaker 1: it is all inspiring to be able to be like
Speaker 1: when we went to the firehouse last night and we
Speaker 1: got to meet those guys and just tell them thank you.
Speaker 1: We mean it. It's not the service, trust.
Speaker 3: Me, Jake. They know it. There's been a lot of
Speaker 3: guys like you have come to the firehouse.
Speaker 4: A lot of the seals have come up from Michael
Speaker 4: thing a lot of like the tenant was telling the
Speaker 4: last night that the tune that came in role. They
Speaker 4: know that what you do and what you done and
Speaker 4: guys like you, the connection is there.
Speaker 3: That's what they felt it last night. It was powerful.
Speaker 3: I called the firehouse this.
Speaker 4: Morning to thank all the guys and they said, my God,
Speaker 4: that was powerful meeting you guys last night.
Speaker 3: The connection is.
Speaker 2: There and it's our honor and our country is greater
Speaker 2: because of men like you. In fact, I love hearing
Speaker 2: you tell stories like you were just a true irishman
Speaker 2: in such a good storyteller, and you've got stories for days,
Speaker 2: and there might have to be like a Danny Manning
Speaker 2: episode two.
Speaker 4: Babe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm all about the Danny Minning part two.
Speaker 4: We could talk about the Michael Murphy and to Steven
Speaker 4: Scilla Foundation.
Speaker 3: What you guys are in here for.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. So. We actually met in a very small town
Speaker 2: in Ireland and County Court called Kinsale, that you and
Speaker 2: I both have very close relation to and Jake's been
Speaker 2: a couple times and we just we love that village.
Speaker 2: If you haven't been to Kinsale, you haven't been Ireland.
Speaker 2: And the greatest people I mean the greatest people, from
Speaker 2: the Frawleys at the White House to James Sikora and
Speaker 2: Declan Hughes from Irish Veterans and flash of course you
Speaker 2: Sharon Cross be the biggest personality in the world. You
Speaker 2: got to mention them. And Danny and I were both
Speaker 2: there about six years ago at an unveiling of the
Speaker 2: Irish Veterans tribute to Lieutenant Michael Murphy who was the
Speaker 2: Navy seal that gave his life. I mean, many of
Speaker 2: you are familiar with the lone survivor story and that
Speaker 2: was Lieutenant Michael Murphy. His family, the Murphys are actually
Speaker 2: from that area of County Cork and Ireland as well,
Speaker 2: and so we were all there together for a beautiful
Speaker 2: day in Kinsale, Ireland to celebrate and honor the life
Speaker 2: of Michael Murphy and establish the first Chapter of Irish Veterans,
Speaker 2: which were both still a part of absolutely and an
Speaker 2: incredible organization. So that is one of the chance meetings
Speaker 2: of my life that I just I treasure every day
Speaker 2: because you are a true gym and I'm just I'm
Speaker 2: so thrilled to.
Speaker 4: Remember when you walked up with me with the at
Speaker 4: the end when I was. I spoke the ambassador with
Speaker 4: the name tags and said, hey, cuz you have the
Speaker 4: same name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so some of my Irish roots are actually from Manning.
Speaker 2: And when I heard your last name was Manning and
Speaker 2: you were from that same area, I walked up and
Speaker 2: I told you that, and you started calling me cousin.
Speaker 2: Now we've done it ever since, my long lost New
Speaker 2: York cousin that I met in Ireland.
Speaker 4: And but an organization, the people of Cansale have embraced it,
Speaker 4: along with the nine to eleven Garden.
Speaker 2: And that's one of the first places I took Jake
Speaker 2: when we went to Kensale a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I said, you have to come see this. And that's
Speaker 2: why we say the world stopped turning that day, the
Speaker 2: fact that in a tiny village in County Cork and Ireland,
Speaker 2: there's actually a hall in the white House that's a
Speaker 2: tribute to nine to eleven. And then not too far
Speaker 2: from there, up on this beautiful hill overlooking the bay
Speaker 2: the harbor, rather, there's a garden that has three hundred
Speaker 2: and forty three trees planted in this garden with the
Speaker 2: name of a firefighter that lost their life on September eleventh,
Speaker 2: two thousand and one, on every tree, and then there's
Speaker 2: a beautiful monument paying tribute to that as well. This
Speaker 2: isn't can sale Ireland a world away.
Speaker 1: I remember the day we went, and it was it
Speaker 1: was very moving because Flash it's the greatest. He's one
Speaker 1: of the greatest humans in the world. And he put,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I hadn't laughed that hard, I think
Speaker 1: since I was in the Marine Corps and I remember
Speaker 1: Flash dropping us. We got out and he explained, this
Speaker 1: is what it is, and this goes to show you
Speaker 1: how much and I love and affected the entire world.
Speaker 1: Clearly flashed me my background from the Marine Corps, and
Speaker 1: he knew just to let us, let us be, you know.
Speaker 1: Nashley and I grabbed hands and we walked through this
Speaker 1: whole thing. Never said a word.
Speaker 3: He had.
Speaker 1: A million things were said, but it was all in
Speaker 1: silence and respect and honor. And it's just a beautiful
Speaker 1: thing to see that they get it all over the world.
Speaker 1: And if we could just get back to who we
Speaker 1: were on nine to twelve.
Speaker 4: And it's because of nine to twelve. Fast forward, you know,
Speaker 4: Father Michael was dear friends with Kathleen Murphy who started
Speaker 4: the garden, whose property is on ohow and so that's
Speaker 4: why it is a tribute. It's the father Michael, that's right,
Speaker 4: Judge nine to eleven Garden remembrance and it is because
Speaker 4: of generosity nine to twelve Kathleen Murphy, who was a
Speaker 4: long time Lenox Hill Hospital emergency room nurse who treated
Speaker 4: many of our guys over the years. It was because
Speaker 4: of her compassion and sorrow and respect for all the
Speaker 4: three hundred and forty three of us that the guys
Speaker 4: had to make it that she came up to his
Speaker 4: idea to plant a tree and everybody's name in the
Speaker 4: garden of respect to them. This woman took care of
Speaker 4: a lot of firemen over the years on her own property,
Speaker 4: building this out of our own money and did everything
Speaker 4: on our own with the help of the villagers there
Speaker 4: and can sail and people from all around the world
Speaker 4: come to visit this.
Speaker 2: Garden now and it's beautiful.
Speaker 4: We were there that I'm one for the dedication for
Speaker 4: Michael Murphy, a lot of the Navy personnel, of the Seals,
Speaker 4: the ambassador, we had a brief laying ceremony there with
Speaker 4: Ambassador Cammalley. What I thought about there was like, look
Speaker 4: at this now in the small little spot of the world.
Speaker 3: Here is this monument now, and it's a living monument.
Speaker 4: You know a lot of monuments he around the country,
Speaker 4: steel concrete. This is a living, growing monument that's forever living.
Speaker 4: I have it in that village where I used to
Speaker 4: go as a young boy. When I found out that
Speaker 4: that was there, and the connection of Michael Murphy. He
Speaker 4: had a nickname, the Protector, and I think I might
Speaker 4: have spoke about this at the dedication. How the irony
Speaker 4: of it now that Michael Murphy, who won my company
Speaker 4: patch on all those missions, being known amongst his men
Speaker 4: as the Protector, and growing up as his family used
Speaker 4: to say, that was this sort of moniker that there
Speaker 4: he is now in the village that can sail with
Speaker 4: the Irish Veterans memorial in the beautiful white house, and
Speaker 4: they were the men the three forty three up on
Speaker 4: the hill. It's like, it's just the irony of it
Speaker 4: to me, poetic is about to be a better word
Speaker 4: that to Protector in the village still being there for
Speaker 4: the men whose patch he wore.
Speaker 3: That to me is really irony, right, poetic.
Speaker 4: But you know that iconic photograph actually that we know
Speaker 4: the song about. My friend Dave mcgilton from County Cowalk
Speaker 4: Island wrote about he's in Ireland and he sees his
Speaker 4: photograph of father Michael being carried in a chair by
Speaker 4: first responders to Biman and police, and he wrote a
Speaker 4: song about it.
Speaker 3: The Sky Belongs to the Dreamers.
Speaker 4: You know, it's one of the many, many tidbits to
Speaker 4: the stories that a lot of them are untold still today.
Speaker 2: Probably what do you do to relax or recharge?
Speaker 4: Being that I retired now, I kicked back at the
Speaker 4: house and there's always something to do around the house,
Speaker 4: fixing things up, going to the beach, and we like
Speaker 4: to travel to Ireland.
Speaker 1: Name a person or organization that you can think of
Speaker 1: that has had a massive impact on your life.
Speaker 4: I guess I can go back to that earlier story
Speaker 4: where I told about Larry Fitzpatrick and Larry dying on
Speaker 4: the rope trying to save another brother. I'd say that
Speaker 4: impacted me because it was close.
Speaker 2: To home, you know what feeds your soul.
Speaker 3: Family.
Speaker 4: Blessed to have great parents, I sort of struggles. They
Speaker 4: had come into this country as immigrants, from Ireland, not
Speaker 4: much in their pocket, the life type hard to give
Speaker 4: me and my brother Patrick put money together they could
Speaker 4: to bring us home to Ireland every other summer and
Speaker 4: live on the farm and milk the cows and had
Speaker 4: my you know, have the horses and go to the
Speaker 4: creamery with the milk, and I'd get an ice cream
Speaker 4: as a reward from my uncle for doing that. And
Speaker 4: so the struggles they had to give us that kind
Speaker 4: of life early on, to show where they came from
Speaker 4: the farms in Ireland and not having much to their life,
Speaker 4: and my mother leaving the country as a young woman
Speaker 4: in search of a better life, never seeing some of
Speaker 4: a family again ever, same with my father. That gave
Speaker 4: me a sense of family that my kids today have.
Speaker 4: That's to me the best gift. And that doesn't feed you, sol,
Speaker 4: I don't know what does, Amen.
Speaker 1: And that's the I think the most beautiful part about
Speaker 1: that too is it's generational right.
Speaker 2: You've truly carried it on. You have a beautiful family,
Speaker 2: truly blessed because thank you, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: being here with us on the good stuff.
Speaker 1: I can't put in the words so much I appreciate
Speaker 1: you and your brothers and your sacrifices and what you've
Speaker 1: done to make this not only this country, but this
Speaker 1: world a better place. And it is truly I mean
Speaker 1: it in ever since the word and honor.
Speaker 4: To do this with you, well, this has been totally
Speaker 4: my pleasure. I just hope I have represented all my
Speaker 4: guys the way they should have been represented, because it's
Speaker 4: all about them, the true eros of nine to eleven,
Speaker 4: the guys that we told some of the stories about.
Speaker 4: And thank you so much for having me you guys
Speaker 4: fabulous and Jake, the admiration I have for you and
Speaker 4: your men.
Speaker 3: Is heartfelt throughout the whole.
Speaker 4: Fire department, and the brotherhood is there.
Speaker 2: We love you. Wow. What a gift to be able
Speaker 2: to sit down with FDNY Firefighter retired Danny Manning and
Speaker 2: hear his first hand account of being at ground zero
Speaker 2: on nine to eleven, two thousand and one. Just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mean, talk about perspective on enjoying life and how
Speaker 1: precious it is and fragile.
Speaker 2: It is and can never take a single day for granted.
Speaker 2: I mean, we are so truly blessed, not only to
Speaker 2: live in this country, but just to be breathing and
Speaker 2: to have our health and our family and our friends,
Speaker 2: and how much does he treasure those things now after
Speaker 2: having lived through that day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think is fairly obvious to me, after having
Speaker 1: the honor and privileges sitting here and listening to that,
Speaker 1: that it's exactly why Danny is one of the happiest
Speaker 1: people on the planet.
Speaker 2: Right, He absolutely is. And you know, to know his
Speaker 2: beginnings and where he came from. His parents were born
Speaker 2: in Ireland, and then he talked about his summers in Ireland,
Speaker 2: which is just so heartwarming, and then he comes over
Speaker 2: here he decides to serve our country and this wasn't
Speaker 2: you know, the first of his many escapades as a
Speaker 2: New York firefighter. But in Jine fifty three Latter forty three,
Speaker 2: l Barrio's Bravest. What an incredible group of men that
Speaker 2: are just so selfless, and it just makes you so
Speaker 2: proud to be an American to know that guys like
Speaker 2: Danny and his brothers are willing to put it all
Speaker 2: on the line for us.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. They're all heroes, and they're all
Speaker 1: mighty men and women, And to all the heroes that
Speaker 1: died that day and in service to our Great Country,
Speaker 1: Patty Brown, Father, Michael, Larry Fitzpatrick. I promise you we
Speaker 1: will never forget.
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