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windshell
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 Posted: 09/22/07 - 03:51 Post subject: Navarra still guiding Tunnel-to-Towers run
A little before 10 in the morning on the last day of September, something in the neighborhood of 15,000 runners will gather on the Red Hook side of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, near the spot where firefighter Stephen Siller abandoned his pick-up truck that other September morning in 2001, and began the run of his life.
All the usual suspects will be there, clogging the E-Z Pass lanes for the start of the Tunnel-to-Towers Run.
The firemen. The Marines. The wounded warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan, some of them competing on prosthetic limbs. New Yorkers, and visitors from around the globe who -- for this one day, anyway -- feel like New Yorkers.
Then the horn -- from a fire truck, naturally -- will sound, and they'll start through the tunnel, following the path Siller took the day the hijackers flew the planes into the buildings, when he ran through the tunnel with 80 pounds of gear on his back, and got to the World Trade Center in time to give his life trying to save others.
Somehow, the race will go on, just the way Vic Navarra planned it, even if he's not there.
Because that's how he'd want it.
Full story:
silive.com/columnists/pric/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1189937824179780.xml&coll=1
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