Posted on 12/22/2014 6:41:05 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Yankee owner George Steinbrenner died in 2010, but his appreciation for the men and women in blue who protect New York City lives on.
For 32 years, Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation has provided for the education of the children of New York City police officers, firemen and Port Authority employees who died in the line of duty, and will do so for the family of NYPD officer Rafael Ramos, gunned down by a cold-blooded killer Saturday along with his partner, Wenjian Liu.
The foundation will pay for the education of Ramos' son, 13-year-old Jaden, and another son, Justin, who attends Bowdoin College in Maine. Liu, who was recently married, had no children.
Steinbrenner started his foundation in 1982 after seeing a news account of four children flanking their mother and folding an American flag at the funeral of their father, an NYPD officer who had been killed in the line of duty.
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Good for them!
Classy thing to do. I will still boo the Yankees, but maybe I’ll turn it down a couple of notches. Unless they play Pittsburgh in a World Series.
Good move on their part. But I will never like the Yankees. GO RANGERS!
You might have to wait a while.................
Even the most fervent Yankee hater has to like this.
You don’t have to like the team, but you can admire the organization.
I bet that churns the guts of the thugs that are getting paid millions and wearing the t shirts defending the criminals.
I read Officer Ramos’ son’s tribute tweet. Upon consideration I see how blessed he was to have actually had a ‘Father’ for as long as he did. I look at all the poor single-parent children who will rarely see that benefit. It breaks my heart to see what this Country has degenerated into.
This Rangers fan also tips his hat to the Yankees organization. There are bigger things in life than baseball.
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