oh of the under jericho fire department welcome you all all this work today wouldn't be possible without the planning and organization of the members of the permanent group the one hundred year and also in the memorable memory of a tragedy that took place september eleventh twelve years ago in new york with three hundred forty three firefighters were killed one year and their wives through three hundred forty three firefighters here today let's remember and not forget the fallen brothers and sisters and the members families and friends of the under general fire department that came before us in the last one hundred years fire i know that most of the firefighters know this but i want to tell people know this as well this is not your tax dollars here this is all donations from the fire department members past members present members and if anybody wants to donate there's still wrong but it's how we believe it's a beautiful mind why it's going to serve more than just one purpose  is but anyway side or just christmas break we talked about the station we built a station here in ninety ninety seven and we got so wrapped up in what we were doing we never really had a final tribute or a tribute to the committee that worked for four years planning this player station and already two of those members have passed so before it went on any further on that side of it commemorates the committee but anyway we've got to i want to wrap this up because it is not a kind of warm out here and if you want a good day for something you last as a committee that planned yes because they planned it for like a year ago and they're pretty good weather people i was so i'd like to departments around the state since nine eleven reform the public safety officer benefit program this is a program that career firefighters employed by miss colleagues for years had to paradise in the event they get disabled or lose their life in and whereas nineteen fifty one chief power davis was still in command of the fire departments or district school in the underhill center and became incorporated entirely in the open a new bert fire station in underhill where it was in the early ninety's sixty's chief robert king oversaw the purpose of the furtive firm's first commercial fire trucks and lowered insurance costs whereas in two thousand and eleven she taught for sure has been in command of the department has oversaw also served west bowl and parts of west for whereas joyce thirteen  we would like to officially dedicate this monument and i would ask our house members here to stand as well well our members repeat after me significant time not just show up at their house and sometimes it's a little difficult to get them back around or they look away from us for a while today we're lucky to be able to have a couple of those folks here to present in their honorary membership or their associate this short a time well i wrote back to him and i said ok i've lived a lot of disappointment in my life and i guess i'm disappointed in probably one hundred years now really won't matter in about half an hour he wrote back and he said i don't like that word disappointment so he says i went and talked with the owner and i talked to the plant manager when we shut down the end of june i get to go to last and randy said speak slowly because with your broken english nobody will understand you if you go fast i thought i have no accent but i actually do i discovered a large object in the corner of my hesitation and since i was determined to do something with this beautiful federal sink no model five feet just to be correct about it siren it was a shame to have it hidden in a corner of the department so i made it my mission to revive the sorry about two years ago i succeeded in reviving the tyrant and each year we held a memorial on september eleventh and day they went in and then have a came back and i was so proud but it wasn't enough and you had to find a home for desire so we could continue to use it and have a display for everyone to see the idea was born to have to a top of the memorial to come honoring the memory of september eleventh coincidentally the timing was such that it was also the hundred year anniversary of the huge f helped me turn what i thought would only be a dream into reality also thank you to all that are here today and help us celebrate the monument with me i asked harry to give me about a partner who was with him in new york city and we actually have a full time firefighter that was at the time of the attacks in new york city and he knew a few people so our connection is very close to what happened september eleventh there and we have a person here that's very close with us so if you want to hear any stories here it is their dad probably can have some stories about level for three seconds then it comes down and we go back up for four seconds and then we go down we will back up for three seconds or three hundred and forty three firefighters i would urge you if you don't have any earplugs to stay away a little bit further or stay behind the trucks if you have your pluck spirit is a person going around with a box that has your plugs for you just to make the circle a the committee says it's really great we actually made a dream come true which is having a memorial for the nine eleven fireman and randy clark the senior randy senior was a fire chief at the time and kit his wife was has always been you know connected with the fire department so there was a small firehouse and labor day weekend we had the chicken barbecue and they'd always have a parade like up a little announcement with all the fire trucks to go through town and we get to ride in the fire truck and and my mom would always you know everybody had their designated things they had made so mom always made baked beans all these people all but to me there are people that i that i know you know feel that kevin and of course you know they