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2002-09-12

My story is about what happened on the 10th of September 2002. The thirteenth of September, 2001, a gruop of City of Miami Police officers recieved permission to go an aid the New York Police Department in New York City. They drove straight thru for twenty four hours to New York and reported to the command center and where sent to Precinct 6. There they filled in with miscellaneous police duties as to free up NYPD personnel to look for their dead and to go home and rest and return to duty rested. Miami police retire Frank Arostegui donated an American flag and had all the retiree's at this year convention sign it. This was on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of September 2002. On the ninth he and his wife flew to New York City and on the tenth of September, he presented the flag to Lt. Cunningham of the 6th Precinct in Manhattan. The message sent alone is that the law enforcement is the first line fo defence here at home, however do not forget the second line is us retiree's !!!