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Sep 11, 2006 6:25 pm US/Eastern
Philadelphia Firefighters March In Remembrance
by Robin Mackintosh
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
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Philadelphia firefighters marched five years after the 9/11 attacks to remember their fallen brothers and sisters.
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Philadelphia Firefighters marched Monday morning and held a moment of silence at the Eternal Flame in Franklin Park in honor of their fallen brothers and sisters killed September 11, 2001.
The flags outside the station houses are flown at half-staffed for 343 firefighter victims they did not know, but were members of their extended family.
"It's a brotherhood and a sisterhood, like no other," said Local 22 President Brian McBride.
Members of that brotherhood marched together in remembrance. While off-duty firefighters marched, on-duty firefighters across the city lowered their flags and observed a moment of silence.
"It is pretty surreal, you could never recreate that ever again and I hope that I never live to ever see anything like that again," said Fran Cheney, a three year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department.
On that fateful day Cheney worked with the Bensalem Fire Department and responded to a need to fulfill a call of duty. Cheney went to Ground Zero where he provided his services on 9/11 and the next seven days.
"You think about the guys all the time. From me being a firefighter growing up in a firefighter family, I do, I find myself thinking about it a lot. And not only that, I think of the guys I grew up around, I've seen die, I think of our own guys. It truly is a fraternal organization, truly a family," said Cheney.
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