Frank Siller is organizing a safe way for victims' families to gather and read names on 9/11 after the memorial says recorded names will be used this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pete Brian, take it from here
Ashley. Thank you,
yes,
Brian will for families to read
the names of their lost loved
ones during the ceremony,
however, this year the memorial
deciding not to do the live
reading due to Covid 19 concerns
and instead use a recording,
our next guest brother, New York
City firefighter and familiar to
you who raced on foot to the
twin towers where he gave his
life saving others
now tunnel, two towers, ceo, Frank
Siller, come up with a new plan
to honor the lives of the
fallen
Frank. We got your reflections
on the decision.
You said you are going to take
action.
What happened?
Well, the action is, they are
not going. It read the names and
the tunnel two towers. We are going
to provide that service.
We are going to put make sure
that the nine slash eleven families have an
opportunity to read the names of
their loved ones.
We could do it in a very safe
way because im all about
safety,
we hanged out over three million
pieces of Ppe Tunnel, two towers
to make sure hospitals and
everybody in New York and the
tristate area and further
got back from Florida as a
matter of fact delivering a
truck load down there.
So we understand safety
were going to make sure the
readers only one at a time come
up to each podium
going to be two podiums.
Anyone thats on the stage will
be six feet apart.
They will be wearing mask and
get up to the podium and take it
off and read the names
its not that difficult to do.
We will make sure that anyone
who gathers around and listens
to the names being read are
wearing a mask
going to have gloves for people
to wear.
We will have hand sanitizers,
have our staff out there making
sure that everybody is safe.
Brian, Frank, what you are doing
is your own thing. You cannot
convince the nine Slash eleven museum to do
their thing
correct,
and I wish that we didnt have
to do it.
I know there is a lot of
families that are upset that the
names werent going to be read.
They dont know many of the
families that were going to be
doing
im, sure they are going to be
relieved.
The day I was down there, I ran
into a firefighter who lost his
brother, Joseph Henry, on nine slash, eleven
sea firefighter,
his father was his grand
father
and they were so upset that the
names were not going to be read.
I said: look we are coming up
with a plan to read them.
He said it his a widow manning
who wants to read for the first
time the name of her husband and
he left behind two young
daughters,
and there is a petition out
there. I know I talked about from
Donna a nine slash, eleven survivor
the day I came on with you about
a week ago.
She had a little over two thousand
signatures
now its up to nearly fifty thousand
signatures.
There is a great calling for us
to read the names
and we at the tunnel to towers
Foundation are always about
remembering the sacrifice the
life lost that day.
Never forgetting
and its so important to have
that emotion of that day, to read
the names and for other
generations to know what
happened and you cant have a
videotape of years in past.
You have to have these families
reading and were going to do
that
Brian. We realize that used to
be a country figure out
now its all about we cant. Do
we cant get people into the
city? Now,
if you are coming from the
outside
one of those banned states, you
have to quarantine for two weeks
or you could be massively fined.
Tell all the families that I
hate to see them fall victim, but
were probably going to get this
on the stream and be able to
contact you and see where we go
from here.
The Memorial museum letter to
families goes like this.
We will use recorded name
readings from museums Memorial
to make sure your loved ones are
recognized and remembered
that wasnt good enough for us,
certainly not good enough for
Frank in memory of your brother
and some others
so again, tunnel, two towers
making it happen,
and I hope Fox is down there.
Recording it and doing it and
im sure they will, because they
get it
and im sure many others will
too
Brian thats. Why you give
tunnel two towers donations. You
know your money goes to the
right place
tunnel two towers, dot org. They will
take every month, ten dollars or whatever
can you afford? So you dont have.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-06.