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Final picture of WTC hero
NY Post ^ | November 9, 2009 | Tom Topousis

Posted on 09/11/2020 3:03:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right

Jud Box has spent eight years coping with the death of his firefighter son at the World Trade Center — but that didn’t prepare him for what he saw posted to a new online archive of photos and videos about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Scrolling through the archive, Box came face to face with his son, Gary Box, a firefighter with Brooklyn’s Squad 1, who was captured by a digital camera lugging his gear through a traffic-clogged Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel on his way to Ground Zero.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; box; garybox
Firefighter Box’s fire engine got stuck in traffic. So he jumped out and ran towards the World Trade Center. He died there about an hour later.

The country must not forget him.

1 posted on 09/11/2020 3:03:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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2 posted on 09/11/2020 3:04:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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I remember this pix from that day.

Found out a few years ago he survived!!!

3 posted on 09/11/2020 3:09:08 AM PDT by lizma2
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Remember the 343...


4 posted on 09/11/2020 3:34:40 AM PDT by Shady (It is the rule of law vs tyranny, plain and simple, and it is the fight of our lives...)
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He did?? Name??


5 posted on 09/11/2020 5:11:00 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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They all demonstrated their devotion to our country and us with their very lives. We must never forget.


6 posted on 09/11/2020 5:49:08 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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Wow, how incredible to have the last photo of him found. Bittersweet for his father.

That’s what heroes look like.


7 posted on 09/11/2020 5:51:52 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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Mike Kehoe


8 posted on 09/11/2020 6:08:51 AM PDT by SelmaLee (MAGA!)
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9 posted on 09/11/2020 8:51:51 AM PDT by lizma2
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