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List of Yonkers firefighters, police officers, and construction workers who passed away from the effects of working at Ground Zero.

Jim Tritten provides a written history of his family members that came from Bodrog Szentes, Hungary. He chronicles their journey to the United States and how they assimilated into Yonkers. Tritten describes going back to the village his ancestors…

These are interviews with Alexandra's mother Daisy Armas and her grandmother Theresa Salvador.

Bottom row: from left to right-Jr. Lt. Robert Raynor, Vice Commodore William Davids, Harold Fisher.
Top row: from left to right-Sr. Lt. John Fisher, Charles Stodley, George Stodley, Irving Davids and Thomas Allen

This is a photograph of President Ronald Reagan that was sent to the USVLSC.

This resolution is an acknowledgement of the heroic effort by the USVLSC of saving the Bennett family who sinking on a boat in the Hudson River. The resolution was crafted by Councilman Moczydlowski. It was signed by Mayor Kristen Kristensen. …

National Water Safety Congress Award to United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps in recognition of outstanding effort to prevent needless water accidents and drownings.

Mayor Terence Zaleski and Jacqueline Miller with a crowd by the auditorium.

In this letter, Rear Admiral Perkins is congratulating August Held and members of the Yonkers branch of the USVLSC for assisting in twelve rescue operations in the Hudson River during 1959.

This letter is dated October 26, 1959.