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(emotive piano music)

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- The 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

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is in remembrance of all
the fallen firefighters

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from the 9/11 terrorist attack.

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It's known that two firefighters

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climbed to the 78th
floor on the south tower

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to evacuate patients on 9/11,

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so we will be climbing the stairs 13 times

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in order to replicate what those guys did.

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We'll be providing laminated pictures

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of all 343 fallen firefighters

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and then everybody will
have an opportunity

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to take one of those
pictures and climb with them.

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- I did it last year, and
I did it with the suit,

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I did it with the tanks,
I did it with some hoses,

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and I wanted to do it again,

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but I wanted to make the
challenge a little different

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you know we all have a
different level of hard

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- Baby let's go

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- and I could never replicate
the level of mental strength

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that those firefighters had to exhibit

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when they had to go up there

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and attempt to rescue as
many people as they could.

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So for this time I wanted to do

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how fast could I climb 110 floors.

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Yes I remember like it was yesterday.

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I was 17 years old,

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I was getting ready to
shift to recruit training,

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and I was at work, the
store manager's crying

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and she finally tells me that

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somebody had crashed an airplane
into the World Trade Center

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we needed to close and go home.

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Thought she was making something up

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I didn't even think that
that would even happen

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or be possible.

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We're service members,

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we're gonna come and
we're gonna be involved,

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but seeing the family,
the wives, the kids,

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there was a little girl,
she had to be three,

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and she'll give it a look
back as she gets older,

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at stuff like this,

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and know that she participated

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to remember those people
that gave their lives.

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(emotive music)