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Word of the Day for Thursday September 11, 2003: succor SUH-kuhr, noun: 1. Aid; help; assistance; especially, assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress. 2. The person or thing that brings relief. transitive verb: To help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve. ~~~ Quote a Day: �There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go -- if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.� --Bernard Malamud Sprinting slightly more than a mile from Brooklyn to Manhattan does not sound like an extraordinary feat of athleticism until you close your eyes and imagine the desperate conditions under which one brave firefighter did it last Sept. 11. In those impossibly frantic moments, a married father of five -- who was technically off-duty -- abandoned his vehicle at the entrance of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, grabbed his work gear and made the run of his life, in an effort to save others. His name was Stephen Siller and he didn't live to tell of it. Do a fundraising walk, honoring your hero. |