“Say their names so others won’t forget and then they will truly never be gone.” “On Veterans Day as the names are read of the service men and women who have died so that others may live, remember that there are people all over the country who are listening to those names that may be the spouse, mother, father, brother, sister, child or friend of one of those individuals,” she said. Christopher Raguso was killed on March 15, 2018, in a helicopter crash over the Iraq-Syrian border. “Saying my husband’s name and hearing it echo throughout the capitol’s national mall gives me and my family such a sense of pride and honor,” said Carmela Raguso, whose husband Air National Guard Master Sgt. … Some of those men and women paid a big price.”įour Gold Star wives expressed their gratitude for the foundation and their plans to read the fallen’s names aloud, including their husbands. “Many of our men and women who saw that signed up to serve America, to protect America to make sure it didn’t happen again, on our homeland. “He wanted to help people, he wanted to serve, he wanted to save,” he said. He said his brother strapped 60 pounds of fire gear on his back and ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to the Twin Towers.

Siller started the foundation after losing his youngest brother, New York firefighter Stephen Siller, on 9/11.

“We do it because as a nation, we must acknowledge these great American heroes, because it is right, it is just, and it is about time that we did it.”

“We’ll be reading those 7,059 names here on Veterans Day for the first time ever at the Lincoln Memorial,” he said. “We at the Tunnel to Towers Foundation believe it is our responsibility and our honor to make sure that their sacrifice and the sacrifice made by so many other families are never forgotten,” said the foundation’s CEO Frank Siller. In addition, volunteers will carry banners with each fallen service members’ picture. The reading will take place at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital.

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