Terry Collins
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That runner with second base with two outs in the ninth to tie the game.
Nope, we had to get David Eckstein out, not Tony La Russa.
That's also a great call out.
Right, right.
Well, Tunnel to Towers is a foundation put together by a family of a guy named Stephen Siller, who was a FDNY fireman who was killed at 9-11, who was on his way to play golf when one of the planes hit the towers.
And he rushed back to try to get into Midtown.
He got to the battery tunnel between Brooklyn and they wouldn't let him in.
So he put his gear on.
He had his gear in his truck.
He put his gear on and ran three miles.
to get to the towers, and when he got there, the towers collapsed and he was killed.
And so his brother, Frank Siller, started this tunnel to Towers Foundation where they support first responder families, first responders who have died, their families.
Frank has paid, and I'm going to be wrong here, Courtney, so I don't want to throw it out, but I'm going to say like 250 mortgages.
He's paid off from these families.
He now also takes care of veterans, disabled vets.
They're putting together villages, veterans villages around the country where these disabled vets have smart homes where they can walk in and they can talk and they can put the lights on and start the TV.
And I was there.
I witnessed one of them in Bradenton, Florida.
I don't think I've ever had my heart...
throb as much as it did when I saw this little girl walk in this home with her father who was in a wheelchair and she had a room for the first time all expenses paid no bills and now Tunnel to Towers are taking those kids that are in these veterans homes and are giving them college scholarships