BTW the Grand Marshall for the parade this year is David McDonald from Clovis California. He owns Pelco, a security camera company that had the contract for the WTC. He hosted a huge thank you to WTC heroes. He footed the bill to pay for two jets to fly the WTC heroes and families to Clovis CA for a memorial service. He paid for their hotel rooms, bus service and hosted a catered diner at his house. They spent 4 days in California as his guest.
At the memorial service they laid a white rose on a white chair for every service person killed on 9-11. The memorial service lasted for about 2 hours and ended with a huge fireworks display. We in the community figured that he spend around 1 million for the whole thing.
He is very generous to the community and to his employees.