Wounded Warrior, fallen 9/11 emergency responders honored at MCU Park
The Brooklyn Cyclones and a community group honored a local Marine veteran amputee and 9/11 emergency responders who lost their lives as part of the seventh annual Heroes Night at MCU Park on Friday, August 14.
“It was just a marvelous situation that he could get his life together after losing his legs,” Sol Moglen the founder of the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance, the community group that organized the ceremony, said about the Marine, Matias Ferreira, a Long Island native who served as a lance corporal in the Marine Corps and lost both his legs in the Afghanistan war. “It shows Wounded Warriors can still have a life after what happened to them.”
The Wall of Remembrance at the ballpark is made of three 30 x 12-foot high granite walls that contain the laser-engraved images of 346 FDNY firefighters, 37 Port Authority officers, 23 NYPD officers, three New York State officers, one fire patrol member, first responders, and a K-9 rescue dog named Sirius, all of whom lost their lives during September 11 and many of whom were from Brooklyn.