NEW YORK (AP) - (WABC) — The roar of 1,000 motorcycles accompanied a steel beam from the World Trade Center on Saturday as it traveled to Pennsylvania, where it will be part of a memorial to those who died there in a Sept. 11 airliner crash.
Hundreds of current and retired FDNY firefighters left Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field at about 7 a.m. to escort the girder on the 311-mile ride to Shanksville, Pa. The group arrived in Shanksville Saturday evening.
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SATURDAY AUGUST 23, 2008
WORLD TRADE CENTER STEEL:
NYC TO SHANKSVILLE PA
MOTORCYCLE RUN
PROCEEDS FROM THE RUN WILL SUPPORT
THE FDNY
FIRE FAMILY TRANSPORT FOUNDATION
and THE WOUNDED WARRIORS.*
Registration is $40 for motorcycle and rider and $20 for each passenger.
The cost of tolls for registered motorcycles WESTBOUND ONLY, will be paid by the FDNY Fire Family Transport Foundation
The FIRST 1000 participants to register receive a free IRON & STEEL logo pin.
The total distance for the run is 311 miles. Try to arrive at Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn NY. with a full tank of fuel by 5:30 A.M. We depart at 7 A.M. SHARP!
We invite you to join us for some or all of the Run!
For more information go to www.ironandsteelnyctoshanksville.com
*THE FOUNDATION IS A 501 C (3)
Please click here for a printable version (pdf)
