A firefighter vanished during the 9/11 attacks and was never found. Eight years later, his family discovered a photograph capturing him running toward the World Trade Center as crowds rushed away from danger. The image showed Gary Box in his final known moments, heading into the chaos on September 11, 2001.
The story of firefighter Gary Box is a heartbreaking but true account of courage during the September 11 attacks. A 35-year-old member of FDNY’s Squad 1, Box was among the first responders who raced toward the World Trade Center that morning. For years, his family had no clear understanding of his final moments and believed his unit’s vehicle may have been trapped in the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel when the towers collapsed.
That uncertainty ended in 2009 when a Danish photographer who had been in New York on 9/11 came forward with previously unseen photographs. One image showed Box running through the traffic-clogged tunnel in full firefighting gear, carrying his helmet as he headed toward the burning Twin Towers while civilians and vehicles moved in the opposite direction. For his family, the photograph provided a measure of closure, revealing that he had made it through the tunnel and spent his final moments doing what he had always done—running toward danger in an effort to help others.
82 years ago today, paratroopers Tommy Lonergan & Johnny “Peepnuts” Hale of the 101st Airborne Division just before their combat jump into Normandy on D-Day. 🇺🇸
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There are way more people moving to Tennessee from California than vice versa, Leslie. To a large extent that’s because uni-party Democrat rule is destroying what made California great. Good luck getting those votes counted before June ends!
It's so funny whenever people are like "it's because of the LEFT that we're overrun by homeless people on the street!" knowing that the real reason is that Ronald Reagan slashed all the funding for low income housing and mental hospitals
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
Bands that played for Obama.
U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Trombone Shorty, Buddy Guy, Beyoncé, U2, Usher, and many more.
Donald Trump: Vanilla Ice, Kid Rock.