Speaker 1: This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast.
Speaker 2: I went to a party I told you this years ago.
Speaker 1: I think it was in massive Pequa and I sat
Speaker 1: down with my wife and there was a mass card
Speaker 1: there and I'll never forget. The gentleman's name was George Kane.
Speaker 1: I didn't know him, but it turns out he was
Speaker 1: an FDNY firefighter, latter of seven and he was killed
Speaker 1: at nine to eleven. And we still have that mass card.
Speaker 1: Danielle and I. I don't know him, I don't know
Speaker 1: his family members. I know very little about him, but
Speaker 1: it's weird.
Speaker 2: It really stuck with me.
Speaker 1: And then I get this touch from Jen Harrison and
Speaker 1: she sends me this letter that this guy Caane's sister,
Speaker 1: Nancy Knee, sent to President Trump like a decade ago,
Speaker 1: about making sure the family members of the nine eleven
Speaker 1: victims that were murdered or able to see that family
Speaker 1: remains and not have to stand online, not have to
Speaker 1: worry about museum hours and all that.
Speaker 2: And it seemed.
Speaker 1: Pretty logical to me. So, just like Alante's petition, I'm
Speaker 1: on board with this one too. And I guess the
Speaker 1: gentleman that started this petition, there's a guy named Jack Joyce,
Speaker 1: and he's actually on the phone right now. Jack, Good morning, buddy,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 3: Good morning, said, how are you?
Speaker 2: It's great to have you. Are you on Long Island?
Speaker 3: No, I'm actually a look overlooking Lake George right now.
Speaker 3: I'm usually I'm usually in Long Island, but I'm up
Speaker 3: vacation up in Lake George.
Speaker 1: I love it up there, Glents Falls and Saratoga. It's
Speaker 1: gorgeous up there.
Speaker 2: Yep. Okay, So I'm pretty sure that I got the
Speaker 2: mass cart for this gentleman Michael Kaine at a party
Speaker 2: in massive Pequa. In fact, then I was even friends
Speaker 2: with one of the Bodman brothers, not Stephen, but Billy.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be a complete asshole.
Speaker 1: But any anything, So I saw this named Michael Kaine
Speaker 1: has kind of haunted me for the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1: And then I'm made aware of this letter that his
Speaker 1: sister sent to President Trump's If you wouldn't mind, Jack,
Speaker 1: give me some background on this story and how you
Speaker 1: did a great job by starting your petition.
Speaker 3: Well, Rosemary Kine is George Kayane's mother, and that was
Speaker 3: assistant me. She I also put I posted a letter
Speaker 3: from her mother also who asked the President to make
Speaker 3: the World Trade Center a true national memorial run by
Speaker 3: the US Park Service. Probably ninety nine percent of America
Speaker 3: thinks that the US Park Service, you know, would would
Speaker 3: run this.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 3: It's run by a private organization. And we're trying to
Speaker 3: put the World Trade Center in a trifle place along
Speaker 3: with the true national memorials, right you know, Gettysburg, the
Speaker 3: USS Arizona, you know, and the Light. I mean, this
Speaker 3: is where twenty seven hundred and fifty three people were murdered,
Speaker 3: and much more have passed away since then. The firefighters,
Speaker 3: including myself, I'm a battalion chief, retired because of nine
Speaker 3: to eleven, and I've had two cancers so far, and
Speaker 3: I'm going through another process. I'm going through another process
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Now, listen, we look forward, we don't look back, except
Speaker 3: for one thing we never forget, and that's what I did.
Speaker 3: So twenty something years ago, the nine eleven families came
Speaker 3: up to me and asked me to help them to
Speaker 3: get this thing done. And I'm saying twenty three years
Speaker 3: I've been down in Congress, walking the halls of Congress
Speaker 3: with them. Rosemary Kane, Warren, Centaura Richie, Jimmy Ritchie's who
Speaker 3: tragically passed away from nine to eleven. Yeah, you go.
Speaker 3: I mean, Jimmy was a great guy. And so what
Speaker 3: I'm trying to do is just make aware to make
Speaker 3: the World Traits International Memorial. Now September eighteenth of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, out in Nassau Coliseum, I called the Boss,
Speaker 3: but people can the president these days. But the President
Speaker 3: said that he would make it a true national memorial
Speaker 3: in the honor of There was about sixty nine eleven
Speaker 3: family members that were there. They didn't know that's just
Speaker 3: going to happen, and I was made aware of it,
Speaker 3: and you know, I bought them all in, you know,
Speaker 3: to have them and they were all surprised because they've
Speaker 3: been working on so long to get this done. They
Speaker 3: just feel it. No politician, no political party should run it.
Speaker 3: There's no Democrat, no Republican, no independent. It's an American tragedy.
Speaker 3: This is where Americans were killed, and that's the way
Speaker 3: it should be. So I got the petition up and run.
Speaker 3: Just like you mentioned Giovanni Galante's petition, I've talked to
Speaker 3: him about his and then joined his thing. And this
Speaker 3: is where we are. We're trying to do it, and
Speaker 3: some of the people are a little apprehensive filling out
Speaker 3: this petition because they don't know where early information goes.
Speaker 3: And just for your information, this was donated by a
Speaker 3: company they want to remain anonymous, and early information actually
Speaker 3: goes nowhere, goes back to the nine to eleven families,
Speaker 3: So there's no third party anything that to call you
Speaker 3: up or anything like that. So that's where we are.
Speaker 3: And you know it's it's it's taken off. I mean
Speaker 3: on Facebook and everywhere else. We're getting a lot of
Speaker 3: traction on it. And you know, I would like to
Speaker 3: see this happen on a twenty fifth year. I know
Speaker 3: it's it's you know, if if I don't know, if
Speaker 3: you remember January this year, our great Governor Kathy Hochel
Speaker 3: decided to illuminate the World Trade Center green and that
Speaker 3: was an honor of Muslim months and that didn't go
Speaker 3: over to Will Day and a lot of the families,
Speaker 3: and if any of your listeners want to look that up,
Speaker 3: please do, because it's the whole month of January. I
Speaker 3: get Veterans Day, or the veterans get one day and
Speaker 3: Muslim unk got a green light. So also Maye Mondami.
Speaker 3: As you saw and saw the pictures in the fight
Speaker 3: upon the headquarters, put the prayer rugs out in front
Speaker 3: of the nine to eleven memorial in the lobby. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, it's creeping back into into the World
Speaker 3: Trades Center site and other places. And I think I
Speaker 3: think the best thing we could ever do in honor
Speaker 3: those people, including George, George Kane, you know, Jimmy Richie's
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of Fring friends that were killed, is
Speaker 3: to make the World Trades Center national memorial, true national
Speaker 3: memorial run by the US Box Service.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that.
Speaker 1: Bill, Yeah, I can't believe this is even a debate
Speaker 1: at this point. By the way, Peter King checks in
Speaker 1: the former great congressman. He said, George Kane's mother, Rosemary,
Speaker 1: is a great friend, his brother Dan is terrific. One
Speaker 1: of George's sisters worked at Fox, and Peter King actually
Speaker 1: spoke at George's funeral. So just not to get confused,
Speaker 1: So your petition is to make the World Trade Center,
Speaker 1: which I'm behind one hundred, a national memorial, not the
Speaker 1: one where people like Kane's sister They want to make
Speaker 1: sure that they can go see the remains of their
Speaker 1: families and loved ones without standing online with a bunch
Speaker 1: of tourists and having to worry about the museum ours.
Speaker 2: That's not yours, that's not mine. Okay, So you want
Speaker 2: to make the World Trade Center a national memorial, President Trump,
Speaker 2: I would imagine I was there that day, I think
Speaker 2: at Nashau Coliseum when it was campaigning. It was right
Speaker 2: before I spoke for him at Madison Square Garden. He
Speaker 2: brought it up, so he's aware of it.
Speaker 1: He wants to do it. It may take a whisper
Speaker 1: in the President's aar in Dallas in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but I'm willing to do that to help.
Speaker 2: Forward this for you.
Speaker 3: I can't I can't tell you said how much this
Speaker 3: would mean, not only to all of nine eleven families,
Speaker 3: for all of America. Everyone knows where they were. Everyone,
Speaker 3: you know. It's just if you asked one hundred people
Speaker 3: if the US Park Service was running at point and
Speaker 3: I would tell you I thought, so, they're running. Mel
Speaker 3: Shanksville is run by the US Box Service, and the
Speaker 3: Pentagon is run They're building a building next to the Pentagon.
Speaker 3: But because the Pentagon's in the Department of Defense, because
Speaker 3: it's military, they have their own thing run by the
Speaker 3: US Bark Service. Now we have the Statue of Liberty
Speaker 3: right across the street. It's not even an issue about
Speaker 3: where the US Park Service is going to be. And
Speaker 3: here's one other one that you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: it's great. I have no problem with But President Obama
Speaker 3: designated the Stonewall in I mean memorial, So I mean
Speaker 3: that's that's great. I have no problem with that. But
Speaker 3: you know what we have where twenty seven hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty fifty three thousand people were murdered, and you know,
Speaker 3: these these poor families are just asking for something simple.
Speaker 3: This is not a big ask. It's not so I've
Speaker 3: been on this thing for twenty something years and finally
Speaker 3: got President Trump to, you know, say that the world
Speaker 3: at the National Coliseum. It's great.
Speaker 1: I think we can move this forward. This is Jack Joyce,
Speaker 1: a brave firefighter. He's been ill a couple of times
Speaker 1: since nine to eleven. He lost a lot of friends
Speaker 1: that day, and he's trying to do something that I
Speaker 1: thought was done. I'm not going to lie to you.
Speaker 1: I really thought it.
Speaker 2: Was a memorial part of the National Parks. I had
Speaker 2: no idea. I literally just found this out from you
Speaker 2: five minutes ago, which is shocking, and there's no excuse
Speaker 2: for it. I'm not okay with it. What do you
Speaker 2: think about Galante's petition?
Speaker 1: Though, mister Jack as a as a former firefighter.
Speaker 3: I will be there. I will be there. I signed
Speaker 3: that petition. I talked to him almost right away. We
Speaker 3: were back and forth, and I commended him on his mission.
Speaker 3: He's a nine to eleven family member, I mean his wife.
Speaker 3: He has nothing left of his wife. He's nothing but
Speaker 3: the memory. It's horrible.
Speaker 2: So you don't think the mayor should be there? Right?
Speaker 3: No way, I don't think the mayor should be there,
Speaker 3: not the way, not with his attitude and when he's
Speaker 3: talking about in the five run everything else. Now he's
Speaker 3: not he's not. He's not.