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Support Cornell’s Annual Car Show Benefiting Folds of Honor | Buying Local #67 · Buying Local Podcast

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  We'll get started. Welcome everyone too.
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  Bye and welcome. I'm your host, Mike Nelson from
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  5 Towers Media, joined by a group today.
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  So a little bit of a different format than what we've been
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  doing. And we're going to be talking
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  about the auto show that is put on each year by Cornell's Auto
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  Parts and as well as Folds of Honor and who is the recipient
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  of the proceeds from that event. And got some an interesting
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  story to tell, sounds like. So I'm, I'm really excited to
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  hear the details. So why don't we go around if you
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  want to, just go ahead and introduce yourself 1st and we'll
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  start there. Yeah, my name is Ron Pastino.
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  I did 30 years government service, six years in U.S.
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  Army and 24 in New York's State Police, eighteen of which in
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  Special operations, and I live in Delmar, NY.
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  Casey Cornell right here from Greenfield owner Cornell's Auto
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  Parts. Mike Colvett, general manager of
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  Reynolds Auto Parts, right here in Greenfield Center.
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  Sean Wilcoxon. I am here, I guess, for three
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  different ways. I am operations director at
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  Performance, industrial owner at Tennis Tavern, and Folds of
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  Honor board member. Very nice.
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  So you know, I think maybe let's start with just talking about
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  the auto show. Obviously this is how many years
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  have you guys been doing it now? This is our 4th, 1:00 fourth
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  year. So give us kind of the rundown
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  on the auto show itself, like what it is, what it does, why
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  you do it. Well, we do it all for charity.
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  You know, we were doing small things for like Franklin
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  Community Center. The first one started out as and
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  then it kind of just grew each year and wanted to take a
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  different charity to get back locally.
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  But it kind of just started as like a get together.
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  Like when we first started it, we didn't know if it was just
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  going to be the employee showing up.
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  I mean, I think we ran out of food.
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  Like we're just like, Oh well, if the employees bring the car,
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  we'll at least have 2030 cars and we can just all hang out
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  like company. Gathering.
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  And then it literally blew up the first year.
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  So second year we started planning a little bit earlier.
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  Second year was triple the size of the first year.
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  So and then. Last year we raised a lot of
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  money for the Cult of Honor, but we had rain.
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  So I said let's, let's run it back.
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  I think we can double what we raised last year, which is
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  $10,500. Let's, let's try it.
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  Hopefully, fingers crossed, nice sunny weather and we get the
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  cars and people who show up. And as far as I was thinking
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  about this on the way down here, as far as the fundraising aspect
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  of what you guys do, how are you raising funds?
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  Is it just your sponsorship? Do people donate day up?
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  How does that work? It's multiple.
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  So a lot of it comes from sponsorships and then you know,
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  we charge for registration cars, all that goes to it, food, all
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  the food goes towards it. T-shirts, we sell T-shirts 5050,
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  which the last few years people have been giving back their
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  5050, they've won, they've given the whole thing.
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  So it comes from all different, all different aspects of it, so.
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  Very nice. Sponsorships have come out early
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  this year. We they've already been
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  producing very well. We've got sponsors all the way
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  up in northern New Hampshire, friends of ours from up there,
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  sponsors of car show from their campground.
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  So it's pretty cool. Yeah.
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  And and who are some of the the folks that are sponsoring so
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  far? We have.
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  Clearstream Campground, of course, Penny's Performance
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  Industrial, they always help show out for us.
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  We have Lee and Nissan Saratoga Camelot came on board, donated
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  the lanyards novice is going to donate all the T-shirts out of
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  his clothing. Mariah Jones with the Shannon
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  Goodson team realtor, she came on board.
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  Party Air Construction came on board.
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  So we're we're definitely starting pretty, pretty heavy.
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  Nice. Nice.
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  And is there a cut off for sponsors?
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  Like you have to have everybody in by a certain day?
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  I like to have everybody in by March 31st.
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  That way I can get a banner made with all the logos on it, stuff
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  like that. So gives me that month of
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  getting everything organized, yeah.
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  For the car show. And and we.
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  We we can take people's money today off you'll.
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  Somehow figure out a way to take their money.
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  They might not make the band. Yeah, they might not be on the
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  T-shirt. That's amazing.
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  And what are the details for the car show too?
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  Just so we get that out there before I forget.
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  So trigger. Space second from 9:00 to 3:00
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  if there is rain in the forecast, May 3rd is the rain
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  date right here, 62 S Greenfield Rd., Greenfield Center and yeah
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  from 93. Hopefully we'll get some good
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  weather. We got good weather wrong right
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  now. I'm really excited about that.
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  It's supposed to be 60° today. Yeah, even.
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  More even warmer tomorrow. Oh, yeah, yeah, need it, need
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  it. I've got snow banks at my house.
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  They're like 10 feet tall right now.
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  I'm discouraged by the warm weather I was going.
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  To. Say you must have winter
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  hobbies. Snowmobile season ended for
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  many, many. Groups today.
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  My winter hobby is climbing through snow banks to.
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  Feed pigs so. That's.
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  Not not, not very exciting for me, but so so why don't we kind
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  of get your story a little bit about your involvement with
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  Folds of Honor? Absolutely.
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  And maybe just kind of talk about what they do.
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  And you know, I know that I, I believe anyway, Folds of Honor
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  has been and no small part to what you guys been doing with
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  Performance Industrial has been doing one of their events that
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  it's really. Becoming.
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  More and more well known and in this area specifically, I mean,
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  because until you guys started doing events for Folds of Honor,
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  I had personally had not heard of them.
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  But since then, obviously. We hear about them all the.
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  Time so love to hear about more about Folds of Honor and honey,
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  your your partner story. Absolutely.
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  Again, my name is Ron Pastino and my kids are participants in
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  the Folds of Honor program. My daughter is still currently
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  in her master's and they're still helping her out with the,
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  you know, being a participant in the scholarships.
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  Gentlemen, thank you. Thank you for what you do
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  because my children reap the benefits of it due to my
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  disability. Well, thank you.
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  We. Appreciate you know your
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  commitment sets to comfort herself.
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  Honored, humbled and honored give you the short version in
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  light of, you know, the time frame we have here for this
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  podcast. Basically, I was in special
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  operations for the state of New York and when the second plane
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  hit at the World Trade Center, our team deployed.
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  We were split up in in two groups.
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  One group flew down and the other group drove down.
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  I drove down, pretty eerie thing to drive across the George
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  Washington Bridge and there was absolutely no vehicles and to
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  see a huge smoke plume to the South just felt like I was in a
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  movie scene. Just eerie, surreal.
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  Get down there and we started what we felt was going to be
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  rescue efforts and we worked diligently to to try to rescue
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  people. Unfortunately, that did not
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  happen. Jet fighters flying all over, a
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  lot of commotion and, and all that.
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  Our team ended up spending 7 1/2 months there on the pile to do
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  recovery efforts and sensitive security assignments for things
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  I can't really get into, but, you know, to protect the, the
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  scene and, and some other things that were going on about a year
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  after we started seeing health effects among first responders
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  and, you know, and, and the civilian populace that live down
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  there, frankly, which they get forgotten about as well.
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  I've had some lingering skin effects and and just kind of,
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  you know, shrugged it off had started to get about 6 sinus
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  infections a year, which I never would get them.
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  So it really affected my system, my nasal passages and just
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  really the chemicals that you were exposed to down there
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  horrendously. Pretty pretty much the worst
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  chemical environmental that you would ever want to put a human
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  being in. Go through several years.
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  I started to lose colleagues to the cancers of the 9/11 and at
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  year 15 after 911 which was 2016, I started to have some
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  breathing issues and I thought I was just just had a bad day went
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  on a three mile run and I felt it was felt really hard and I
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  was at the professionally athlete level to be on my team
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  and a three mile run was nothing to to a guy like me at that
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  point and I just shrugged it off.
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  The following day I tried to run another 3 miles at the city
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  Albany loop down where my office was and just felt I'll went to
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  see my personal doctor did a myriad of just general deep dive
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  tests. He felt it was my heart and the
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  the CAT scan came back that my heart was great.
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  But on the periphery lungs of the the CAT scan, there was lung
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  nodules and it it really made me take a step back like hey, I've
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  never smoked and the epitome of health.
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  I knew immediately by losing a bunch of colleagues already that
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  it was from 9/11. Ended up down in New York City,
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  found the top pulmonologist down there, put me through another
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  CAT scan and the PET scan. And bottom line is, is he said
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  we got to get you in the surgery like yesterday because you, you
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  definitely got a lung disease, but you know, you probably have
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  lymphoma cancer. Cause all my lymph nodes were
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  popping up hot on the, on the PET scan.
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  So within a week I was back down there at a surgery, surgery #1
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  they took a bunch of tissue samples and they validated my
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  lung disease from 911, couldn't rule out cancer.
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  So they had to go in through it, a more invasive surgery a few
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  weeks later to where they took a quarter of my right lung out and
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  all my lymph nodes because they were popping on pop for cancer.
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  Ultimately they ruled it out. They said I was the the the
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  worst inflammation case they've ever seen in history at that
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  hospital for my lungs. So at that point, major
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  surgeries back-to-back within a month and a disease, I had to
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  make a decision. Do I stay in the state police,
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  which they would have took care of me, or do I retire and see
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  what retirement's about? Because I had enough time to
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  retire and I heard it was, I heard retirement was pretty
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  good, but I had to be straight up.
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  I was not ready to retire. You know, I was 45 years old,
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  living the dream at the tip of the tip of the spear, saving
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  lives daily with my team. And I still enjoyed my job and
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  giving back and helping others. So but my doctors kept telling
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  me, we don't know how long you're going to live.
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  And with me analyzing all the colleagues that I already lost,
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  I had to make a decision to, you know, to do what's best for #1
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  the agency. Because I, I can't be in command
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  of a scene and make a bad decision because I'm not
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  breathing right and I'm not thinking straight.
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  So I, I decided to retire and then it was a tough, very,
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  really, really tough transition. When you're used to doing what I
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  did, it really becomes your identity.
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  I mean, and you get used to the adrenaline and, and the go go,
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  go part of it. And to go to a screeching halt,
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  it's like a light switch that goes off.
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  So basically I went through two years of darkness.
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  Basically the transition. Although I was employed, A buddy
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  of mine from the FBI got me a job as a government contractor.
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  I ran an international law enforcement program.
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  Really great job. That's a retirement.
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  Job. Yeah, that's.
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  What I was going? To do when I.
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  Retired. So, but all the while it wasn't
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  what I used to do, you know, although I was still helping out
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  others that were, you know, supporting special operations
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  out worldwide. Me not being being able to enter
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  a room and take a bad guy down anymore.
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  It was hard adjustment. So I finally, you know, had to
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  figure out like what what can I do to better myself with my
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  health? Had to turn this around because
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  all the doctors can provide me in the traditional medical
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  system was an inhaler and, you know, a steroidal pill and that
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  was it for like that's it. We just don't know.
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  So I started to do some investigation online.
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  I've always been epitome to health and always in the
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  supplements and holistic stuff like meditation and, you know,
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  granola type stuff. And, but I also, you know,
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  needed, I always thought like, what about these charities?
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  They're, they're out there advertising like I, I, I'm the
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  perfect example of case. So I started to look up health
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  and Wellness charities to kind of get me the best doctors I
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  need for my personal condition. And ultimately I, I found a
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  couple who campaign was the first one.
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  They took me under their wings and got me to some of the best
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  doctors on the planet and help me out with my PTSD brain
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  treatments and, you know, help give me the doctors to kind of
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  balance out and create homeostasis in my body to create
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  a healing process. Additionally, while this is
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  happening again, I, I lost a lot of salary when, you know, I, I
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  was made pretty good money in state police.
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  At my level, when you retire, it's not the same amount of
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  money and you know, it, It just was very difficult at the time.
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  And I started looking up as my, my twins were about to go to
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  college, looking up scholar scholarship for my kids.
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  And I, I came across Folds of Honor and I reached out and,
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  and, you know, the New York branch took me under the wings
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  and my kids under the wings applied and we got them through
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  four years of college. And my, my daughter's still in
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  her master's. So, you know, they, they've been
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  very helpful to take that the financial burden off, off #1 my
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  kids and then myself, because I feel an obligation to take care
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  of them as well. So for, for me to, you know,
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  help out Folds of Honor to help the others, like heck yeah, you
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  know, tell my story to, to to, you know, get some more funding
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  to help the kids of the disabled and and fallen military and war
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  first responder any day, all day.
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  Absolutely. So yeah, that that's basically
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  it. You know, I, I, I pretty much
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  did every treatment on the planet.
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  And the last big one was stem cells, Nesicon of stem cells,
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  which come from umbilical cords and medical waste basically, you
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  know, they, they throw that stuff out after their birth to a
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  guy like me, that's gold. Those cells are processed and
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  ultimately I end up having 7 treatments and in about two
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  years and pretty much reverse my my lung disease or you know.
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  Yeah. Well, that was going to be my
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  question is, do you still have ongoing battles as far as your
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  health goes outside of like normal ageing?
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  I'm not like I used to be. I am pretty much optimized the
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  best I can be for the condition. You know, I've been through.
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  It also affects your brain. I told you I you know, I had
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  some brain stuff go on when you're exposed to those
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  chemicals. But also beyond the World Trade
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  Center, you know, 18 years on call, losing 4 teammates,
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  shootings and stuff like that, that you're around and part of
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  effects, you know, you end up getting PTSD.
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  So I, I still am in prevention mode of that stuff.
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  I have everything under control. And that is a result of the, the
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  holistic means and, and treatments.
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  You know, the hippies were right.
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  They were freaking right. You know, these guys were right.
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  Yeah. So yeah.
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  Hey, look for, for anybody you disabled vets and 1st responders
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  out there, it's about prevention.
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  It's about getting, getting control of what your condition
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  is. And then it's about prevention.
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  So I, I take a myriad of supplements daily and, you know,
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  do do certain workouts and meditations and, and go to
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  certain doctors to prevent this from flaring back up and, you
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  know, to prolong my life. Now I made a pact and, you know,
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  I tell my kids this, I'm going to be the first 911 disabled
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  responder to live the 100 to prove that you can overcome the
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  adversity and, and still win this.
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  And I'm not going to let the terrorists kill me.
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  And I'll leave it at this, the World Trade Center 911 this year
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  will be the 25th year. It is the longest acting killing
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  terrorist event in history. It is still killing to this day.
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  Somebody, you know, like there was a colleague last week from
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  the state police that died. So just imagine all the NYPD,
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  the FDMY, the civilian populace that we've found, the kids, kids
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  have died from diseases. So just keep that, you know, in
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  the back of your head of the amount of people that died on
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  the day, that's for 25 years, the amount of people that died
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  after has now passed, the amount of people that died the day of.
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  So I love help, helping and guiding 9/11 responders that
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  have sicknesses. I get calls from all over the
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  country now and around the world.
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  A lot of the burn pits, military burn pit people, same thing
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  you're supposed to. All those chemicals and stuff,
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  they're having the same disease. So I guide them through a
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  toolbox approach. You know, not one treatment is
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  going to be, you know, work. You know, you got to have a
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  culmination of your, your screwdriver, your, your hammer,
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  your wrench, and using that collectively to, to create the
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  healing process of your body. So that's, that's what my
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  winning recipe is. And I, I kind of pass that on to
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  the saving folks to kind of guide them to get them to the
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  right holistic doctors around the world.
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  So I just want to take a step back and just say thank you
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  again for not only fighting for us, but now fighting for us and
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  fighting for those who continue to fight for us.
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  Ron just explained what Folds of Honor did.
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  But I'm going to take a step back and start with what Folds
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  of Honor is. And, you know, maybe tell the
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  story so that they can understand.
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  But Folds of Honor will start a national organization.
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  And if you haven't heard of it, go online.
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  You know, see the video about it.
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  But it was about somebody was on a plane.
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  And why can't Doctor Dan Rooney? Dan Rooney, what kind of Dan
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  Rooney is on a plane? Plane landed and fallen soldier
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  had to be let off the plane 1st. And in the moment, he wrote a
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  book about it. And it's just so touching that,
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  you know, that moment of the fallen soldiers, some of the
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  guys fighting for us to have the freedoms that we have, It just,
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  it did something to him and he started in Folds of Honor,
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  started from it. And then what he talked about
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  was it's, you know, that person is gone, but their family still
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  has to go on. Their wife still has to go on,
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  their mother, brother, sisters, they still have to go on.
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  He wanted to make sure that the legacy of that person that died
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  for us or is permanently disabled for us goes on and that
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  we support them. So Folds of Honor is a national
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  organization. New York State has a chapter.
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  Now. I wasn't on the original
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  chapter. Tommy O'Connor, our board
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  president, got involved with it. I got to chance to cater.
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  I was in food service, got a chance to cater the first
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  concert at local school in Loudonville and I heard a story
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  from a Gold Star mother and never looked back.
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  I said how do I get involved? How do I help?
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  So we raise funds to give scholarships to military and 1st
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  responders that are either permanently disabled or pay the
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  ultimate sacrifice and die for us.
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  So your children have had a chance to receive scholarships
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  every year that they've gone to school because of your battle
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  and because of your fight and because we continue to do for us
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  today. And so the fact that we're
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  sitting here in small town in upstate New York with a private
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  business owner that's willing to say that, you know, because of
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  his business, because of that support, you know, last year you
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  sent two people to college for a year, like over over two people
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  because you, you raised the money of two scholarships.
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  And now this year wanting to double that's 4 scholarships,
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  small town upstate New York, that's amazing.
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  Just, I mean, it's, it's amazing.
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  It's honestly amazing. The fact that you get back the
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  fact that you're going to be here speaking on that day to
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  connect with others. So that who knows who's going to
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  be in that crowd that day? Like what if it's a somebody
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  that's battling this, that might have a chance to connect with
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  Ron because he's here to give him back to raise money for
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  this. And so it's, it makes me
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  emotional to hear about it, to talk about it.
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  But I, I believe in the world that we live in today, the
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  battle that's going on right now, you know, there's nothing
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  more important to them. Remember that people are out
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  there fighting for our freedoms, fighting for that time that we
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  had and giving back. And so thank you very much and
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  Folds of Honor, thank you very much.
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  Because like anything, we're competitive people too and we
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  want to fulfill every single scholarship request in New York
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  because of 911, because of the fact that we live in New York
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  State and it's our responsibility to fill New York
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  State first. We at times don't fulfill a New
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  York State every year and the amount had that are applied for,
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  we don't have the funds to fulfill them every year.
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  More and more every year with 9/11 continuing to happen in
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  first responders. Being such a large group on top
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  of military, our goal is to fulfill every one of those
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  applications and it's with all this help that we are going to,
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  you know, drive our goal to get there.
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  So so how can they apply for this?
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  Hold on honor.org. Hold on honor.org.
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  I would say two things go on apply, But you know, they can
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  contact you. They can contact you, they can
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  contact Ron, they can contact me.
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  We're out there. We're on social media, our
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  names, our phone numbers. It's always when you apply.
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  I tell everybody, contact one of us, let us say national word.
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  This is somebody we know. They're from our backyard.
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  If you're not from our backyard, you're from downstate or
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  whatever, somehow you see this, contact one of us because we
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  want to hear from you. We want to hear your story.
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  We want to, we want to fight on behalf of you to get that
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  scholarship. No one doesn't deserve it.
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  But the sad fact is, is that we don't have enough to give to
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  every single one, right? So there's not a single not
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  deserving person, but National has to make the the hard choice.
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  And now I will say that National doesn't just say if it wasn't
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  raised in New York, you can't get it.
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  National will do everything they can to take funds from wherever
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  they can to try to fulfill everyone National.
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  So it's not like if we don't raise it here, there's no
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  chance. But reach out to us with holds
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  of honor to hope. Amazing.
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  I didn't realize. I shouldn't say I didn't
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  realize, it didn't occur to me or I hadn't thought about the
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  fact that 911 is still ongoing, right?
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  Like people are still. Suffering, but like I mean we
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  talk about it, we hear about it. You know, every year we, I want
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  to say celebrate, but we recognize the anniversary of it.
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  But you know, you don't think about all the people that are
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  still dealing with it. It's a heavy price attack.
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  It's. The real deal, Yeah.
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  And it's it's truly affecting families still.
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  I lost a close buddy of mine 8 months ago to cancer.
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  Yeah, local up here actually, Trooper.
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  Yeah, so, and in regards to filling out that application for
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  Folds of Honor, it's pretty simple actually online.
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  Yeah. So anybody out there, real
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  simple process, go online and then contact, you know the New
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  York representatives, they get national board.
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  And holds of Honor New York has a specific spot on the website,
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  the national website and all of our name, all the board members
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  names. And I have to say the board
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  members are all on page. They're all from, you know, here
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  to Albany local people. We have a group of people that
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  we love and have a lot of fun, you know, having these events
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  and celebrating those that fought for us.
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  And that's, you know, an opportunity of like that
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  hardship to hear, you know, we always want to be, you know,
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  connected to say you got to hear that story because of the why,
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  you know, what's the why behind it.
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  But once we, you know, we make sure people know the why, We
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  also like to bring the joy in laughter and fun.
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  You know, I'm sure there's going to be lots of laughter, lots of
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  smiles here at the car show. I mean, I don't know people from
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  Greenfield. They're known to bust, you know,
• 26:42
  bust some chops, you know, tell some good stories, you know,
• 26:44
  cook some good food. Like you're going to, you're
• 26:46
  going to have some laughter here and you know, when it's all
• 26:48
  about remembering that the reason why we're doing this so
• 26:51
  that we have the opportunity to bring cars here to walk around
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  and look, you know, is because of the freedoms that are fought
• 26:57
  for and, and the, the price that's paid.
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  And it's, you know, it's just so important to never forget that
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  freedom is not free. Freedom is fought for and paid
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  for by people like Rob. Absolutely.
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  Well, on behalf of our listeners and viewers, thank you for your
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  service. Absolutely.
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  And sacrifice, you know, and your family for that matter, and
• 27:19
  everyone that serves. Thanks Cornell's for putting on
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  the The car show here May. 2nd May 2nd.
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  One more time. Rain date May 3rd.
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  Yeah. And thanks to Performance
• 27:31
  Industrial and Tenny's Tavern as well for all the work that you
• 27:34
  guys are doing as well helping promote this time and the other.
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  Work that you do, I mean you guys.
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  Do a ton, all of you guys do a ton of stuff in the community to
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  help uplift our community and and help those that serve us so.
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  It's our pleasure, it's our pleasure to be a part of it.
• 27:48
  And thanks everybody for listening.
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  Of course, you can find this episode another episodes of
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  Thanks everybody.