You're going to end through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel like you said tomorrow going to the site of the towers. SEANA SMITH: Frank, we certainly want to get to that, but I just want to ask you a little bit more about that 500-mile walk that you will be completing tomorrow, because you started down in DC by the Pentagon. And I'm sure in a few moments, we'll talk about the great work that we're doing. And that's why we started the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. We said, you know what? We'd better honor, we have to honor what he did. It was a tremendous loss for our family.īut we're so proud of what he did. So he was a little gift from God when he was born. My brother Russ was 25 years older than him. I was 14 years older than him and I was closest in age. And so, you know, we were so proud of what he did. So he drove back to his firehouse, Squad 1 in Brooklyn, got his gear, drove to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, was closed for security reasons, so he put his gear on, ran through that tunnel to the towers, where he gave up his life while saving others. And why am I walking through that tunnel? Because 20 years ago, my brother was a New York City firefighter who on Septemwas on his way home to play golf with me, and my brother George, my brother Russ, and heard on the radio scanner that the towers were hit. I'll be walking through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. And forgive me, people notice I'm in a car because I'm not quite finished my 537-mile journey tomorrow. Can you tell us more about 20 years later how the foundation is making a difference?įRANK SILLER: Well, look, my brother is a New York City firefighter. But this is personal for you, the foundation, because it was your brother, one of seven children in your family, a firefighter, who lost his life on 9/11.
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