November 11, 2021 • 16 mins
RUSH: We don’t have guests on the program very much. When we do, it’s a special thing, and today we’re going to go outside the programming format. I want to welcome to the program Mr. Frank Siller, who is the founder of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, that’s just doing an amazing body of work for those who were victimized, killed — surviving families — after 9/11, first responders as well. First of all, Frank, welcome. It’s great to have you on the program. So everybody who has been hearing about Tunnel to Towers for a while can get to know you a little bit. You’ve done incredible things. Great to have you here.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We don't have guests on the program very much. When
we do, it's a special thing, and today we're going
to go outside the programming format. I want to welcome
to the program Mr Frank Siller, who was the founder
of the Tunnel of Towers Foundation. It's just doing an
amazing body of work for those who were victimized, killed,
surviving families after Night eleven first responders as well. It
(00:24):
was first of all, Frank, welcome and it's it's great
to have you on the program. So everybody who has
been hearing about Tunnel the Towers for a while, UH
can get to know you a little bit. You've none
incredible things. Great to have you here. Thank you so
much for Russian. Thank you and Katherine and all your listeners.
What you've been doing over the last a couple of months.
And you're making a big difference for our foundation because
(00:47):
we're changing many people's lives and I just can't even
thank you enough. Tell us a little bit about your brother, Steve,
and I know that he was the youngest of seven kids.
He was a firefighter. What happened well, Stephen on eleven,
two thousand and one, was on his way home to
play golf with myself, my brother George, my brother Russ,
and he heard on his radio scanner that the towers
(01:07):
were hit. So he was just finished his night tour.
But he drove back to his firehouse, he got his gear,
went to the mouth of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. I
for he listens that don't know, that's a tunnel that
connects Brooklyn with downtown Manhattan. And that tunnel is almost
two miles long. It was closed for security reasons. So
you know what firefighters do, what first responders do, They
run towards the the fire or those who to save people.
(01:32):
And that's exactly what he did. He's trapped sixty pounds
of five gear on his back, ran through the tunnel
up West Street into the South Tower. And while he
was going up those stairs and saving people, twenty five
thousand people will say that day rush greatest rescue vision ever.
While he was doing that, he did give up his life. Frank,
what is the what is the average salary or the
(01:53):
salary range for a New York City firefighter? Um? I
think they start. They start, for she is when the
probs the first five years, some somewhere around fifty thousand
dollars um and they go up art every year incrementally.
But I will tell you this that we deal with
you know, you know, first Tank because you know that
we've helped eighteen of the families since you have helped
(02:15):
us selling those three D shirts, you know, the Betsy
Roy shirts. UM. A lot of these firefighters and police
office all of the country making forty fifty dollars a year,
So you know, they're not doing it to become rich. Yeah,
that's my that's my point. I mean, they do things.
It's kind of like the military that sense. They do
things that very few other people volunteer to do. They
(02:36):
put themselves in harm's way on purpose. Like you said,
he was going in. He wasn't trying to get out.
All of his compadres were. We're doing the same thing,
and they faced death every time they go out in
the call. And they really are not paid that much. Now.
They firefighters do have the opportunity for second third jobs
because it's you know, a lot of time on, a
lot of time off. But still it's a it's a
(02:57):
it's a tremendous commitment. I always thought after living in
New York City, uh and and I remember a particular
fire mine was the end of a fire, was going
into clear out debris and the building blew up and
a bunch of them lost their lives. It was a
total shock and surprise. It was not terrorism, and it
was just one of the quirks of the of the fire.
(03:20):
And that's when it hit me, uh just just how
how uh serious they are? What a what a great job, risky,
dangerous job they do that other people just take for
granted that they're going to be there when there's a fire.
And I, you know, seven kids, what were you doing?
What is your line of work? Well? I was in
(03:40):
the retail business, and I also built some homes. I
was a spot builder. And that is why when we
started the Tunnel of the Tawas Foundation and we start
to build these smart homes for our country's catastrophically agiate
service members, I wasn't afraid to take that on because
I had some background in in building and to be
quite franctice a rush today at mine when the eighteen
(04:01):
years ago when the South Tower fell, um today when
I lost my brother today, what we did was we
gave two houses away to catastrophically injured service members, one
in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland. To make sure that
we take a moment that was so horrific and we
did something that's so good, Uh, to make sure that
we let people know that always goodness, try, tryal and
(04:24):
so over evil. And that's what we're all about, the
tons of Towers Foundation, turning something so bad people's lives
to change in an instant. You know, gold start families.
Seven thousand men and women have died since nine eleven,
seven thousand and um. You know, we gotta take care
of these families. You know, we gotta make a contract.
Americans got to say if you if you're gonna go
protect me overseas or wherever, and you die in the
(04:45):
line of duty, We're going to take care of your family.
And that's exactly what we're trying to do. A Tonal
of Towers Foundation make sure we have that contract with
our men and women in uniform and our first responders,
and you know what we're doing. We're doing it, but
we have to do a hell of a lot more.
We're speaking with Frank Siller of the ton of the
Towers Foundation, who lost his youngest brother Uh at nine eleven.
(05:07):
How old was Stephen when when on that day Stephen
was thirty four years old. He was a father of five,
father of five, father of five and listen rush, when
he was ten years old, our parents passed away and
and he was raised by his oldest siblings. He's one
of seven, like you said when you first came on,
but he was much younger than all of us. He's
(05:27):
like a son to me and to my siblings, and
we raised him. And the loss was just so great
that we knew we had to do something to honor him.
And we have a run every year in New York City,
always a less Sunday, September. We have thirty thousand people
to retrace his final heroic footsteps. We have the pictures
of all the five fighters who died at nine eleven
and police officers. We have the pictures of the seven
(05:48):
thousand men and women who died protecting the country ever since.
It is the most patriotic event that anyone could ever
be at. Five fighters, police officers run from all over
the country, and many from from thirty all over the world.
Uh calm. So it is a tribute to honor those
who died on nine eleven, but honor those who have
(06:08):
died afterwards. So I want to talk with you further
about that in uh just a minute, but I want
to stick with nine eleven for a minute, because this
is the day I've I know a few people. I
know one man who has lost two of his three sons,
and the second one was it blew up his marriage.
It just wrecked his life. To this day, he's frustrated
(06:32):
that he aside from the getting of been a lot
and he just he doesn't feel like there's been sufficient
reciprocity for this. Doesn't understand it. Um, it's it's something
you never get over. And like like you, he's doing
everything he can to keep the memory of his son alive.
People that lost people that day are doing the same
(06:54):
thing because it's so it's uh, it's it's so senseless.
And I've also heard people, I want to get your
action to this rank. I've heard people say, not this year,
but in previous years on the anniversary date that they
think we need to get over it. That you know,
we don't need to be reading names every year that
the terrorists are winning. If we're going to stop the
(07:15):
whole day to remember that we've that's what they succeeded
in doing. They stopped an election on that day, they
shut down New York City for a while, the air
travel system. We can't let them keep doing this. What
do you what do you react? How do you react
when people say that, I say this so wrong. It's
important that we never forget. First of all, we don't
want it to happen again. So you know, if you
(07:36):
let your gods down, it will happen again, There's no
question about it. But we have to honor those who
died in the biggest terrorist attack that ever happened on
American soil. We can never forget the sacrifice that was
made that day. There's so many acts of heroism, not
just by my brother Stephen, but by so many that
that we're willing to give their lives for their community,
(07:58):
for their country. We can never forget that. And we
have to teach our children what happened. It's a fact.
It is what happened on nine eleven. It changed the world.
And sad to say, it will be a long time
before it's uh. It's it won't be affected by what
happened on on on nine eleven. It's a reality. It
is a reality that we cannot run away from now. Folks.
(08:19):
I'm sure you can hear during the conversation to this point,
Frank Sailor is not political. This is not a political
event to him. This is a terror attack. It must
be dealt with accordingly. How do you react, Frank? I
still have to ask it political question? How do you
react when you see the New York Times report the
following eighteen years have passed since airplanes took aim and
(08:41):
brought down the World Trade Center. It's just a total bs.
It is nothing political. Something write something like that to
me for me to react to it, that is uh.
You know, terrorists you know what I mean? Terrorists flew
those planes into the into the towers that went down
in Shanksvilla, went at and at the Pentagon. Terror ruist
did it? Call it what it is. People are afraid
(09:03):
to say the truth, and you only have to speak
the truth. And this is exactly what happened. Terrorists changed
the world on September eleven, two thousand and one. It
was happening beforehand. We didn't have our eyes open. We
weren't ready. My brother worked at squad Warner Brooklyn used
to tell me all the time that he was training
for a terrorist attack. They knew it was coming in
some way, it was showing some shape of some form.
(09:25):
We don't want it to happen again. So you can't
say somebody flew a plane into a tower. It was
terrorists that flew a plane into the tower, and we're
praying that it never happens again. And how you do
that is by remembering, by honoring those who made the
ultimate sacrifice, and making sure that we never forget. Frank
(09:46):
seller of Tunnel to Towers, Nowaday, Now let's talk about that.
When did you get the idea for a tunnel of
the towers? And when did it officially open and get
up and running? Well, it was officially open running in
December of t thousand and one. We knew right away
that we had to do something to honor what my
brother did that day. And a friend of his said
to me, Hey, Frank, how about what we do a run?
(10:07):
And I said, you know it sounds good or whatever
he goes, No, I mean a run through the tunnel
what he did. And I almost I literally it was
overcome with emotion because I know it was the absolute
perfect thing UH to do to honor what Stephen did
and for all those that died that day, and so
we we did it, but we didn't know exactly what
we were going to do, you know, raising money and
doing things. But to be quite frank with you, God
(10:28):
has put us on a path that we have no choice,
that we have to do what we're doing taking care
of our gold staff families, are fallen first responders and
catastrophical linus A Service members. And we didn't think we're
gonna do any of that when we started. We just
wanted to make sure we didn't forget, and we wanted
to honor the sacrifice and celebrate their lives. But my God,
(10:49):
we will put on this path and we're going to
stay on that path, and with the help of people
like you that bring it to light, to bring the
work that we're doing too. In this. You put such
a light on us to be able to help all
these families. I mean, we help an eight team more
families already because of what you have done. I can't.
I have just overcome an emotion. I just it just
(11:11):
it just makes the world a difference to my family
to make sure that we can go out there because
we are committed to this, that I take my final
breath to make sure that we help every American that's
willing to do what my brother did eighteen years ago.
I saw a video that you've produced about a house, UH,
that you have built for a wounded warrior with all
(11:32):
kinds of really innovative technology that makes UH this with
his specific injuries, able to open a refrigerator, door, able
to cook for himself, able to get in the front door,
able to lock it. It really is advanced stuff. So
you get the tunnel of towers helps first responders, it
helps the families of military people who have been injured
(11:55):
or killed. Where are the boundaries? I mean, you can't
help everybody, So your focus is it? Is it first
responders in military? Is that they? Yes, that is it?
In a nutshell, those who willing to die for you
and me rush in a second, in a moment's notice.
They're willing to die for you and me and those
people that put their lives on the line. And like
we talked about early earlier, they don't make much money,
(12:18):
so they're not doing it for for money. They really don't.
That's the thing. They especially in New York City, the
family of four, that's a tough thing to do. They
make more than as time goes on. But my point
there is that they don't. They don't do it for money,
and when they're gone, we have to take care of
their families because the mortgage is the biggest burden that
(12:41):
any family has. And if we can alleviate that burden
for these families that have paid the ultimate sacrifice, because
we know when somebody serves, it's just not the person serving,
the whole family serves. And if we can alleviate that mortgage,
I think we've done a good deed and we could
help that family through their darkest times and help lift
um and let them know that people care. And this
(13:02):
Betsy Ross T shirt item has helped you retire the
eighteen mortgages and counting so far right, eighteen mortgages and counting,
because you know, I know you're doing the blue shirt,
which already have one of, and it's absolutely I love
it and everyone that's seen it loves it. And you know,
we were on Fox the other day. I know that
you mentioned that, Um, you know how you look good
(13:25):
at it. Frank, I saw you open the jacket and
there you were, you were styling that out a little bit.
I gotta lose a few more pounds here and that
showed that. But uh no, I really like to show it.
But what I really like the most about is that
that day, that room was filled with first responders, and
the response to you and what you're doing was was overwhelming.
(13:45):
And your audience is obviously recognizing how the importance of
first stand up and realized that the Betsy Ross flag
is not not something that you should protest. It's something
that stands for our freedom from the revolution every woods
it's a today and and to do good work with it.
By buying it, now look what's happening, we'll be able
(14:08):
to help all these families. I mean, come on, you
stand up, you make a statement. At the same time
that statement is helping these great families that paid the
ultimate sacrifice. What could be better than that. People want
to push back because you're right, it isn't political. That's
a Ross wasn't political. The fag is not political. To
symbol of the unity for crying out loud and and
and and people you know are fed up with this.
(14:29):
And I have to tell you Katherine is Katherine is
the one that chose tunnel the tower shot. She uh
found it as she was so moved by what you're doing,
and we decided to U just just do it. We
didn't even call to tell you, Frank, we just did it.
I was I was literally knocked off my feet when
I heard you talking about us, because I listened all
(14:49):
the time and I had a strong suspicion. Katherine uh
was the one that pushward. And I can't thank Katherine.
If you listen and thank you, God bless you. But Russia,
I'm gonna tell you right now, you get the greatest
audience in America, and they are responding in a way
that we need them to. They're the ones that have
made this happen. They really have. It's still and Frank,
(15:13):
I'm reluctant to give you numbers this blue shirt. We're
already half through the inventory we bought up just last week.
That's good. That's good. It's great news. And look, I
appreciate your time here. I know this is a very
touching and meaningful day for you. I appreciate you're making
time for us here. It's it's it's great to talk
to you. And and we don't have any end in
sight for this. As long as there's a demand and
(15:35):
a desire, we're gonna make these shirts available at Russia
limbo dot com. Click on the store tab. That's it,
freak seller of the Tunnel of Towers Foundation. We'll be
back and continue. No, No, three million dollars in counting.
It's this is not a folks, this is this is
not a uh we're not pursuing profit here. Proceeds here
(15:58):
and go to the Tunnel of Towers found a S
and it's a twenty seven dollar Adam. Now we've added
royal blue to the white T shirt, same unique, great
fabric and uh three million dollars to Tunnel the Towers
so far and counting
We don't have guests on the program very much. When
we do, it's a special thing, and today we're going
to go outside the programming format. I want to welcome
to the program Mr Frank Siller, who was the founder
of the Tunnel of Towers Foundation. It's just doing an
amazing body of work for those who were victimized, killed,
surviving families after Night eleven first responders as well. It
(00:24):
was first of all, Frank, welcome and it's it's great
to have you on the program. So everybody who has
been hearing about Tunnel the Towers for a while, UH
can get to know you a little bit. You've none
incredible things. Great to have you here. Thank you so
much for Russian. Thank you and Katherine and all your listeners.
What you've been doing over the last a couple of months.
And you're making a big difference for our foundation because
(00:47):
we're changing many people's lives and I just can't even
thank you enough. Tell us a little bit about your brother, Steve,
and I know that he was the youngest of seven kids.
He was a firefighter. What happened well, Stephen on eleven,
two thousand and one, was on his way home to
play golf with myself, my brother George, my brother Russ,
and he heard on his radio scanner that the towers
(01:07):
were hit. So he was just finished his night tour.
But he drove back to his firehouse, he got his gear,
went to the mouth of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. I
for he listens that don't know, that's a tunnel that
connects Brooklyn with downtown Manhattan. And that tunnel is almost
two miles long. It was closed for security reasons. So
you know what firefighters do, what first responders do, They
run towards the the fire or those who to save people.
(01:32):
And that's exactly what he did. He's trapped sixty pounds
of five gear on his back, ran through the tunnel
up West Street into the South Tower. And while he
was going up those stairs and saving people, twenty five
thousand people will say that day rush greatest rescue vision ever.
While he was doing that, he did give up his life. Frank,
what is the what is the average salary or the
(01:53):
salary range for a New York City firefighter? Um? I
think they start. They start, for she is when the
probs the first five years, some somewhere around fifty thousand
dollars um and they go up art every year incrementally.
But I will tell you this that we deal with
you know, you know, first Tank because you know that
we've helped eighteen of the families since you have helped
(02:15):
us selling those three D shirts, you know, the Betsy
Roy shirts. UM. A lot of these firefighters and police
office all of the country making forty fifty dollars a year,
So you know, they're not doing it to become rich. Yeah,
that's my that's my point. I mean, they do things.
It's kind of like the military that sense. They do
things that very few other people volunteer to do. They
(02:36):
put themselves in harm's way on purpose. Like you said,
he was going in. He wasn't trying to get out.
All of his compadres were. We're doing the same thing,
and they faced death every time they go out in
the call. And they really are not paid that much. Now.
They firefighters do have the opportunity for second third jobs
because it's you know, a lot of time on, a
lot of time off. But still it's a it's a
(02:57):
it's a tremendous commitment. I always thought after living in
New York City, uh and and I remember a particular
fire mine was the end of a fire, was going
into clear out debris and the building blew up and
a bunch of them lost their lives. It was a
total shock and surprise. It was not terrorism, and it
was just one of the quirks of the of the fire.
(03:20):
And that's when it hit me, uh just just how
how uh serious they are? What a what a great job, risky,
dangerous job they do that other people just take for
granted that they're going to be there when there's a fire.
And I, you know, seven kids, what were you doing?
What is your line of work? Well? I was in
(03:40):
the retail business, and I also built some homes. I
was a spot builder. And that is why when we
started the Tunnel of the Tawas Foundation and we start
to build these smart homes for our country's catastrophically agiate
service members, I wasn't afraid to take that on because
I had some background in in building and to be
quite franctice a rush today at mine when the eighteen
(04:01):
years ago when the South Tower fell, um today when
I lost my brother today, what we did was we
gave two houses away to catastrophically injured service members, one
in Pennsylvania and one in Maryland. To make sure that
we take a moment that was so horrific and we
did something that's so good, Uh, to make sure that
we let people know that always goodness, try, tryal and
(04:24):
so over evil. And that's what we're all about, the
tons of Towers Foundation, turning something so bad people's lives
to change in an instant. You know, gold start families.
Seven thousand men and women have died since nine eleven,
seven thousand and um. You know, we gotta take care
of these families. You know, we gotta make a contract.
Americans got to say if you if you're gonna go
protect me overseas or wherever, and you die in the
(04:45):
line of duty, We're going to take care of your family.
And that's exactly what we're trying to do. A Tonal
of Towers Foundation make sure we have that contract with
our men and women in uniform and our first responders,
and you know what we're doing. We're doing it, but
we have to do a hell of a lot more.
We're speaking with Frank Siller of the ton of the
Towers Foundation, who lost his youngest brother Uh at nine eleven.
(05:07):
How old was Stephen when when on that day Stephen
was thirty four years old. He was a father of five,
father of five, father of five and listen rush, when
he was ten years old, our parents passed away and
and he was raised by his oldest siblings. He's one
of seven, like you said when you first came on,
but he was much younger than all of us. He's
(05:27):
like a son to me and to my siblings, and
we raised him. And the loss was just so great
that we knew we had to do something to honor him.
And we have a run every year in New York City,
always a less Sunday, September. We have thirty thousand people
to retrace his final heroic footsteps. We have the pictures
of all the five fighters who died at nine eleven
and police officers. We have the pictures of the seven
(05:48):
thousand men and women who died protecting the country ever since.
It is the most patriotic event that anyone could ever
be at. Five fighters, police officers run from all over
the country, and many from from thirty all over the world.
Uh calm. So it is a tribute to honor those
who died on nine eleven, but honor those who have
(06:08):
died afterwards. So I want to talk with you further
about that in uh just a minute, but I want
to stick with nine eleven for a minute, because this
is the day I've I know a few people. I
know one man who has lost two of his three sons,
and the second one was it blew up his marriage.
It just wrecked his life. To this day, he's frustrated
(06:32):
that he aside from the getting of been a lot
and he just he doesn't feel like there's been sufficient
reciprocity for this. Doesn't understand it. Um, it's it's something
you never get over. And like like you, he's doing
everything he can to keep the memory of his son alive.
People that lost people that day are doing the same
(06:54):
thing because it's so it's uh, it's it's so senseless.
And I've also heard people, I want to get your
action to this rank. I've heard people say, not this year,
but in previous years on the anniversary date that they
think we need to get over it. That you know,
we don't need to be reading names every year that
the terrorists are winning. If we're going to stop the
(07:15):
whole day to remember that we've that's what they succeeded
in doing. They stopped an election on that day, they
shut down New York City for a while, the air
travel system. We can't let them keep doing this. What
do you what do you react? How do you react
when people say that, I say this so wrong. It's
important that we never forget. First of all, we don't
want it to happen again. So you know, if you
(07:36):
let your gods down, it will happen again, There's no
question about it. But we have to honor those who
died in the biggest terrorist attack that ever happened on
American soil. We can never forget the sacrifice that was
made that day. There's so many acts of heroism, not
just by my brother Stephen, but by so many that
that we're willing to give their lives for their community,
(07:58):
for their country. We can never forget that. And we
have to teach our children what happened. It's a fact.
It is what happened on nine eleven. It changed the world.
And sad to say, it will be a long time
before it's uh. It's it won't be affected by what
happened on on on nine eleven. It's a reality. It
is a reality that we cannot run away from now. Folks.
(08:19):
I'm sure you can hear during the conversation to this point,
Frank Sailor is not political. This is not a political
event to him. This is a terror attack. It must
be dealt with accordingly. How do you react, Frank? I
still have to ask it political question? How do you
react when you see the New York Times report the
following eighteen years have passed since airplanes took aim and
(08:41):
brought down the World Trade Center. It's just a total bs.
It is nothing political. Something write something like that to
me for me to react to it, that is uh.
You know, terrorists you know what I mean? Terrorists flew
those planes into the into the towers that went down
in Shanksvilla, went at and at the Pentagon. Terror ruist
did it? Call it what it is. People are afraid
(09:03):
to say the truth, and you only have to speak
the truth. And this is exactly what happened. Terrorists changed
the world on September eleven, two thousand and one. It
was happening beforehand. We didn't have our eyes open. We
weren't ready. My brother worked at squad Warner Brooklyn used
to tell me all the time that he was training
for a terrorist attack. They knew it was coming in
some way, it was showing some shape of some form.
(09:25):
We don't want it to happen again. So you can't
say somebody flew a plane into a tower. It was
terrorists that flew a plane into the tower, and we're
praying that it never happens again. And how you do
that is by remembering, by honoring those who made the
ultimate sacrifice, and making sure that we never forget. Frank
(09:46):
seller of Tunnel to Towers, Nowaday, Now let's talk about that.
When did you get the idea for a tunnel of
the towers? And when did it officially open and get
up and running? Well, it was officially open running in
December of t thousand and one. We knew right away
that we had to do something to honor what my
brother did that day. And a friend of his said
to me, Hey, Frank, how about what we do a run?
(10:07):
And I said, you know it sounds good or whatever
he goes, No, I mean a run through the tunnel
what he did. And I almost I literally it was
overcome with emotion because I know it was the absolute
perfect thing UH to do to honor what Stephen did
and for all those that died that day, and so
we we did it, but we didn't know exactly what
we were going to do, you know, raising money and
doing things. But to be quite frank with you, God
(10:28):
has put us on a path that we have no choice,
that we have to do what we're doing taking care
of our gold staff families, are fallen first responders and
catastrophical linus A Service members. And we didn't think we're
gonna do any of that when we started. We just
wanted to make sure we didn't forget, and we wanted
to honor the sacrifice and celebrate their lives. But my God,
(10:49):
we will put on this path and we're going to
stay on that path, and with the help of people
like you that bring it to light, to bring the
work that we're doing too. In this. You put such
a light on us to be able to help all
these families. I mean, we help an eight team more
families already because of what you have done. I can't.
I have just overcome an emotion. I just it just
(11:11):
it just makes the world a difference to my family
to make sure that we can go out there because
we are committed to this, that I take my final
breath to make sure that we help every American that's
willing to do what my brother did eighteen years ago.
I saw a video that you've produced about a house, UH,
that you have built for a wounded warrior with all
(11:32):
kinds of really innovative technology that makes UH this with
his specific injuries, able to open a refrigerator, door, able
to cook for himself, able to get in the front door,
able to lock it. It really is advanced stuff. So
you get the tunnel of towers helps first responders, it
helps the families of military people who have been injured
(11:55):
or killed. Where are the boundaries? I mean, you can't
help everybody, So your focus is it? Is it first
responders in military? Is that they? Yes, that is it?
In a nutshell, those who willing to die for you
and me rush in a second, in a moment's notice.
They're willing to die for you and me and those
people that put their lives on the line. And like
we talked about early earlier, they don't make much money,
(12:18):
so they're not doing it for for money. They really don't.
That's the thing. They especially in New York City, the
family of four, that's a tough thing to do. They
make more than as time goes on. But my point
there is that they don't. They don't do it for money,
and when they're gone, we have to take care of
their families because the mortgage is the biggest burden that
(12:41):
any family has. And if we can alleviate that burden
for these families that have paid the ultimate sacrifice, because
we know when somebody serves, it's just not the person serving,
the whole family serves. And if we can alleviate that mortgage,
I think we've done a good deed and we could
help that family through their darkest times and help lift
um and let them know that people care. And this
(13:02):
Betsy Ross T shirt item has helped you retire the
eighteen mortgages and counting so far right, eighteen mortgages and counting,
because you know, I know you're doing the blue shirt,
which already have one of, and it's absolutely I love
it and everyone that's seen it loves it. And you know,
we were on Fox the other day. I know that
you mentioned that, Um, you know how you look good
(13:25):
at it. Frank, I saw you open the jacket and
there you were, you were styling that out a little bit.
I gotta lose a few more pounds here and that
showed that. But uh no, I really like to show it.
But what I really like the most about is that
that day, that room was filled with first responders, and
the response to you and what you're doing was was overwhelming.
(13:45):
And your audience is obviously recognizing how the importance of
first stand up and realized that the Betsy Ross flag
is not not something that you should protest. It's something
that stands for our freedom from the revolution every woods
it's a today and and to do good work with it.
By buying it, now look what's happening, we'll be able
(14:08):
to help all these families. I mean, come on, you
stand up, you make a statement. At the same time
that statement is helping these great families that paid the
ultimate sacrifice. What could be better than that. People want
to push back because you're right, it isn't political. That's
a Ross wasn't political. The fag is not political. To
symbol of the unity for crying out loud and and
and and people you know are fed up with this.
(14:29):
And I have to tell you Katherine is Katherine is
the one that chose tunnel the tower shot. She uh
found it as she was so moved by what you're doing,
and we decided to U just just do it. We
didn't even call to tell you, Frank, we just did it.
I was I was literally knocked off my feet when
I heard you talking about us, because I listened all
(14:49):
the time and I had a strong suspicion. Katherine uh
was the one that pushward. And I can't thank Katherine.
If you listen and thank you, God bless you. But Russia,
I'm gonna tell you right now, you get the greatest
audience in America, and they are responding in a way
that we need them to. They're the ones that have
made this happen. They really have. It's still and Frank,
(15:13):
I'm reluctant to give you numbers this blue shirt. We're
already half through the inventory we bought up just last week.
That's good. That's good. It's great news. And look, I
appreciate your time here. I know this is a very
touching and meaningful day for you. I appreciate you're making
time for us here. It's it's it's great to talk
to you. And and we don't have any end in
sight for this. As long as there's a demand and
(15:35):
a desire, we're gonna make these shirts available at Russia
limbo dot com. Click on the store tab. That's it,
freak seller of the Tunnel of Towers Foundation. We'll be
back and continue. No, No, three million dollars in counting.
It's this is not a folks, this is this is
not a uh we're not pursuing profit here. Proceeds here
(15:58):
and go to the Tunnel of Towers found a S
and it's a twenty seven dollar Adam. Now we've added
royal blue to the white T shirt, same unique, great
fabric and uh three million dollars to Tunnel the Towers
so far and counting
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