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The Paul Hanlon Keating Memorial Scholarship
the Paul Hanlon Keating Memorial Scholarship. The establishment of this scholarship is to honor the heroic efforts of the police, fire and emergency personnel that responded to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster.
in Greenwich Village, N.Y.C. He was a 6 year veteran firefighter. Paul came from a family that has three generations of police and emergency service in the NYPD, from his grandfather (40 years) to his uncle and cousins.
duty. He was at his apartment, just blocks away from the World Trade Center. He witnessed first hand the horrible explosion of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. From his apartment on Cedar Street, Paul placed one final phone call to a friend. He told his friend that "he had to go now, to go help his brothers."
FDNY gave their lives so others could be saved on that morning of 9-11- 01. On February 6th, 2001 the body of Paul Hanlon Keating was recovered from what had been the lobby of Tower #2. Paul was laid to rest on February 11, 2001 exactly 5 months after responding to help his brothers on that tragic morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A day that none of us will ever forget. A day that defined the true grit and resolve of our great nation. |
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