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2002-04-14

After the news set in I felt that I had to do something. I wanted everyone to remember those who gave their lives, not at just this time but always. I started a campaign to have 9-11 made a national holiday. I called it "Fallen Heroes Day". I created a web page called Fallen Heroes Day. It had a logo of the American flag with the picture of a firefighter super imposed over it. I contacted every person on every level in government, state and city office. I contacted all the news media TV, papers, radio and even the NY sport teams. I communicated with hundreds of people on the Internet. The people on the Internet were all in favor and wanted to know what they could do to help. I relayed to them about my web page and asked them to pass it on to family and friends. The results I received from the political sector were form letters thank me for writing to them, and that they would look into it. I than (this is in a time frame from September to January) had a little luck, I was contacted by Ms. E. Cameron, WWORTV (in Brooklyn channel 9) to do a segment called "View Point". I did it, I thought it would generate something, but nothing ever did.