The Ride was co-sponsored by the INOVA Health System and the Fairfax County Police. Proceeds went the the INOVA Health System Foundation for child injury prevention and trauma care. The majority of the riders were law enforcement. Only 16 of us were firefighters, one fourth of which was the four of us on Team Arlington Fire.
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Our hotel the first night was the Jersey City Hyatt (above), which is across the river from 'Ground Zero'
The twin towers used to stand just behind and to the right of these buildings (right); their loss left a huge gap in the New York skyline
The visit was very moving. Randy, who we met on the bus, suggested that we visit 'Ground Zero' on the evening of the 7th. It's a good thing that he did, because on the morning of the 8th we rode out of Battery Park, which is blocks away.
We took a ferry across the Hudson River and back. Our stop was not on the schedule coming back, but the crew was very accomodating and took us back to where we came from.
