National 9/11 Memorial Tour Makes Stop at Police and Fire HQ
County Executive John Leopold was on hand to commend the efforts of the tour and discuss the need to remember the influence of 9/11 on everyday life.
Two steel beams from “Ground Zero” in lower Manhattan stand erect on the lawn of Anne Arundel County’s Police and Fire Department’s headquarters. The structures, first placed there in 2009, honor the men and women who sacrificed their lives on a September morning just eight years earlier. To celebrate and remember those men and women, a California man paid a visit to the Anne Arundel County Fire and Police Department Headquarters in Millersville. Since Jan. 25 of this year, Craig Freeman of the Manhattan Beach Fire Department in California has been driving a large bus and visiting several hundred firehouses throughout the country to raise funds and awareness for the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001 as a part of the “9-11 Patch …
