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This is The Best of with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.

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We are joined now by our friend Frank Siller, who does incredible work, Tunnel to Towers.

25th anniversary of 9-11 coming up.

Frank, I've had a good fortune to work with you

and hopefully be a small part of helping you do

so much incredible, phenomenal work.

Can you believe that it has been 25 years since 9-11?

And I know that people, some of them may have heard this story before,

but can you tell us about what happened on that day that inspired Tunnels to Towers and why

you have continued to work so zealously since that day?

Sure, Clay. Thanks for having me on. I always appreciate it. And thank you for your great support. You personally, you've come to plenty of our fundraising events and helped us raise the kind of money that we need to raise to do the kind of great work that we do. So thank you. I want to start with that. So on September 11, 2001, you know, my brother was a New York City firefighter.

It was just finished his night tour in his firehouse, squad one in Brooklyn.

It was on his way home to play golf with my brother Russ, my brother George, and myself.

The four brothers were going to have around the golf, and he heard on his radio scanner that the North Tower was hit.

So he turned his truck around, called his wife, said to him,

tell him my brother's, I'll try to catch up with him later, and went back to his firehouse,

you know, got his gear. So he drove to the mouth of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel was closed for security reasons. So he strapped 60 pounds of gear on his back. He ran through the

Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, which is 1.7 miles long, up West Street, into the South Tower and going

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