FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                        RELEASE NO. 82-09

CADETS TO PARTICIPATE IN TUNNEL TO TOWERS RUN – Sept. 25, 2009

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Nearly 700 West Point cadets will take part in the Tunnel to Towers Run/Walk Sunday, Sept. 27 from the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel to near Ground Zero.
 
Cadets have volunteered for this run for at least three years, with the numbers continuing to grow each year.

West Point’s Dean of the Academic Board, Brig. Gen. Patrick Finnegan, will run with the cadets, and afterwards will present awards to the top three military runners as the senior Army representative in attendance.

The Tunnel to Towers Run retraces the path Firefighter Stephen Siller Squad 1, Park Slope Brooklyn, who was off-duty on 9/11, but heard on his scanner that the World Trade Center had been hit, he turned his vehicle around and headed toward the site. 
 
He was last seen alive on West and Liberty Streets, where he, more than likely, went looking for his Squad, all of whom perished. The Tunnel to Towers Run retraces Stephen's footsteps on that fateful day.

About West Point
Ranked the “Top College in the Country” by Forbes and “Top Public Liberal Arts College” by US News & World Report, the U.S. Military Academy is a four-year co-educational federal undergraduate liberal arts college located 50 miles north of New York City. The world's preeminent leader development institution, it was founded in 1802 as America's first college of engineering.  Its mission remains constant—to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army.  For more information, go to www.westpoint.edu.

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