... fell asleep at 2am, full of nervous energy for the day to come. I had been working on a City Council campaign all summer long and on September 11th, 2001 we were finally at the Democratic Primary. I woke up at 5am to get back out and hit the streets for the campaign.
Our campaign for City Council was for the District 1 seat in Manhattan. Downtown Manhattan. We were all less than a mile away from the World Trade Center.
After the terrorist attacks we were in shock. Literally, we had no idea what to do. As a campaign, our first order of business was to make sure all of our volunteers and staff were ok. But, then what?
Over the next few days, slowly dealing with the severity of what had happened and working out the fears that it might happen again, the city began to find its pace. People began to donate blood, volunteer to help out firefighters, and Rudy became a national hero.
Meanwhile there was a family band that I had met a year before in Washington Square Park that spent their time helping out the firefighters and later made a record and donated all the proceeds to NYC firefighters. The Veltz Family (formerly known as Cecilia the Band) is made up of mom, dad, their son, and two daughters. Their music is beautiful.
They helped me seven years ago just by playing their music. Here, the National Anthem done by The Veltz Family:
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