A friend of mine is a chaplain for our local fire district.
In a week or so he is headed to NYC for a gathering of first responders. I'm ashamed to admit that I can't remember the name of the fireman that he is going to honor but it was a guy who was supposed to be off-duty but heard the alarms ring and ran miles in full gear to the site of the towers. There he perished doing what he did best - helping people.
The first responders are having a 5K run in the fallen firefighters honor and my friend gets to bunk at a couple of the firehouses.
Not an officially sanctioned event because the City of New York under the bloomberg regime doesn't see fit to honor the true heroes of 9/11.