I participated in an event on Saturday that lingers with me still. Apparently, events like it have been around since 2005, but this was the first I had heard of it.
There is an organization behind the event. It’s called The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Its origin predates 9/11 by nearly a decade, but their visibility and focus probably gained clarity and momentum then.
Since 2005, groups across the nation have put on memorial stair climbs to honor the 343 firefighters who lost their lives at the World Trade Center that day. Our local group only started the practice last year. I learned about it about ten days before, and decided to do it.
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