Ten-year-old Danielle Riches read off some of the names of the dead at the Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony last year, strangers who were killed before she was born.
The final name she recited was of the man whose life and loss are always present in her family — her uncle, Jimmy Riches, a New York City firefighter who died trying to save others.
"Uncle Jimmy, we talk about you all the time and how you sounded so amazing,” she said. "I wish I could have met you.”
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