NAS Kingsville Remembers Sept. 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Naval Air Station Kingsville
NAS Kingsville fire fighters and other base personnel climbed the stairs of the unaccompanied housing building Monday in a memorial to those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
They needed 28 trips up the three-story staircase to replicate the 2,071 steps up the 110 floors of the World Trade Center towers – wearing fire fighter gear or weighted vests in the already hot morning.
A total of 2,996 people, including 343 New York City fire fighters as well as other first responders, died in the attacks on the twin towers, the Pentagon and in a crash in Pennsylvania when passengers attacked that aircraft’s hijackers.
The climb was one of hundreds done across the nation today.
