Mark Geil
2025 1st Vice President
“Are you guys ready?
Let’s roll”
Todd Beamer, passenger on United Flight 93
This time of year, only one moment comes immediately to mind: the attack on the World Trade Center towers. The emotions still flood back like being slapped in the back of the head: sudden, disorienting, and impossible to shake. In those hours and days that followed, everyone was a New Yorker. You could not walk fifty feet on American soil without seeing an American flag, and the usual fighting among Americans was clearly focused on another target.
First responders did not pause to think about what to do. They just reacted and got the job done. We should never forget their contribution, and it was major, in that tragic event. It wasn’t just New York First Responders that reacted, departments & communities from all over sent crews to help out. So the next time you interact with a first responder, pay it forward and thank them for a job well done.
Where were you on 09/11/2001?
| Sincerely, Mark 2026 President |
