NEVER FORGET

Original Fox News live broadcast of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 hosted by Jon Scott.

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Hundreds Hold Hands in NYC to Remember Sept. 11

NEW YORK --Hundreds of people have gathered in lower Manhattan to hold hands in remembrance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Families, teenagers, and others clasped hands as a bell clanged at 8:46 a.m. Saturday to signify the time the first of two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower.

The group formed a straight line that snaked along the southern tip of Manhattan and through an exhibition of American flags, displayed to honor the dead.
 

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By Wil Cruz, Fox News Latino

Their collective heroism has been well documented, becoming in the last decade the standard by which true courage is measured. The valor of the first responders of September 11, the men and women who carried out their ordinary jobs under the most extraordinary circumstances, will never be forgotten – not on this 10th anniversary, the 11th, the 20th or beyond.

But for those who knew the individuals prior to that culmination of courage, their legacy took shape long before that pivotal day. To those loved ones, the firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians were already heroes – for volunteering at the local basketball league, taking the kids to soccer practice, or performing their everyday duties. When the entire world wasn’t watching, they were heroes to the person who felt safer on a street corner because of their presence, to the family who was plucked from a burning building, or to the son or daughter whose parent was brought back to life in the back of an ambulance.

Take Ramón Suárez, the New York Police Department transit police officer who was captured by a newspaper photographer helping a soot-covered woman flee one of the towers, a lasting image that embodied the first responders’ sacrifice that day. The picture and accompanying story in Newsday hanged for years in the NYPD’s public information office at One Police Plaza.

The 45-year-old father of three and grandfather once saw a group of teenagers beating a man in his Ridgewood neighborhood, according to an account his wife, Carmen, gave to the New York Times. He held the troublemakers until a patrol car came by.

So when friends saw the photo, they weren’t surprised that Suárez, after bringing the woman to safety, reportedly rushed back to the chaos to save more lives.

“It just shows that he was truly a hero,” Valerie Ortiz, a friend and neighbor, told Newsday just a few weeks after the attacks, when Suárez’s remains still hadn’t been recovered. “Like we already knew that he is.”

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