| The trip
will start in Austin with the first firestation visit in
Burleson, then up to Fort Worth, and continuing into Dallas, which
would get the 400th visit as a memorial visit for the Kennedy
Assassination. Visits would continue in the Dallas, Fort Worth,
Denton area before heading to Oklahoma. The 500th visit would be
in Oklahoma City on April 19th, as a memorial visit for the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing on April 19, 1995. The
route would go through Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio as shown on
the map segments below with the 800th visit in Somerset,
Pennsylvania near the crash site of Flight 93, the 900th visit
in Washington DC, and finally to New York City on September 11th
with the 1,000th visit. And finally, to visit 343 of the 349 FDNY
firestations (one for each of the firefighters killed in the
World Trade Center Attacks).
The trip with 800 firestation
visits from Oklahoma City to New York City would take about 8 months to complete.
The main purpose of this trip is
just "to say thank you" to firefighters for being
there, and for being ready in help. Other important purposes
would be to help generate more support for fire departments, and
to help more people understand their importance, not just in
saving lives and property, but that better fire departments
actually save their communities money through lower insurance
rates. |
