{"id":388909,"date":"2021-03-25T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=388909"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:25:38","slug":"tunnel-to-towers-to-pay-off-mortgage-of-slain-colorado-hero-officer-eric-talley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/25\/tunnel-to-towers-to-pay-off-mortgage-of-slain-colorado-hero-officer-eric-talley\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel to Towers to Pay Off Mortgage of Slain Colorado Hero Officer Eric Talley"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN: Now, this morning, I don\u2019t know if you saw Fox & Friends. You probably have heard Rush talk about the founder of Tunnel to Towers, Frank Siller. He\u2019s a really cool guy, and he announced this this morning, and it was a beautiful announcement.<\/p>\n

And it reminds you of the loss that took place just two days ago in Boulder. That Tunnel to Towers is going to pay the mortgage of Eric Talley, the police officer that was killed among the 10 in Boulder, and this is just — he was in an interview with Steve Doocy. Could you go ahead and play that, Mike?<\/p>\n

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SILLER: I say it all the time, you know, when these police officers — or first responders or Gold Star family members, when they — give their kids a kiss good-bye and they don\u2019t come home, we gotta be there for them afterwards. It is our obligation. It is our duty as Americans to make this contract with these families that we will take care of them.<\/p>\n

KEN: God bless him. And, you know, Trump… Excuse me. I do that often. I\u2019m just gonna be honest. I think Rush and Trump are such kindred spirits. I always confuse their names sometimes. I know that\u2019s weird. Anyway, Rush was a big supporter of this, and because of you, this organization was able to do — Tunnel to Towers was able to do — remarkable things, because of this audience, because Rush started the momentum.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we wanted to play this for you. When you look at the parallels between the late Eric Talley and Frank Siller\u2019s brother, Stephen, that\u2019s why Tunnel to Towers was created. Both men ran toward danger to save others, not worried about their own lives. Officer Talley had seven kids. Ironically, Stephen came from a family of seven kids, and I found it interesting.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if you saw this was in an article yesterday. Officer Talley left a six-figure job because he felt… I think it was tech. I\u2019m not sure. But he felt being in law enforcement was his calling. So he just pursued it. You know, Rush, like this audience, we all love the military, the police. Anybody that puts their butt on the line for us.<\/p>\n

And this audience so far has raised over $5 million for Tunnel to Towers. You remember they stand up for Betsy DeVos initiative? I have one of those shirts too. So you should feel great because, in many ways, you made it possible for Mr. Siller to help this particular grieving family today. And if Rush were here, he would want to thank you. Go ahead, Mike.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Everybody who has been hearing about Tunnel to Towers for a while can get to know you able to say. You\u2019ve done incredible things. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

SILLER: Thank you so much, Rush, and thank you and Kathryn and all your listeners for what you\u2019ve been doing over the last couple of months. And you\u2019re making a big difference for our foundation, \u2019cause we\u2019re changing many people\u2019s lives, and I just can\u2019t even thank you enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tell us a little bit about your brother, Stephen. I know that he was the youngest of seven kids. He was a firefighter. What happened?<\/p>\n

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SILLER: Well, Stephen, on 9\/11\/2001, was on his way home to play golf with myself, my brother George, my brother Russ, and he heard on his radio scanner that the towers were hit. So he just finished his night tour. But he drove back to his firehouse, he got his gear, and went to the mouth of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.<\/p>\n

For your listeners that don\u2019t know, that\u2019s a tunnel that connects Brooklyn with downtown Manhattan. And that tunnel is almost two miles long. It was closed for security reasons. So, you know what firefighters do, what first responders do: They run towards the fire to save people, and that\u2019s exactly what he did.<\/p>\n

He strapped 60 pounds of fire gear on his back, ran through the tunnel up West Street and to the South Tower. While he was going up those stairs and saving people — 25,000 people were saved that day, Rush, the greatest rescue mission ever. While he was doing that, he did give up his life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s kind of like the military, in a sense. They do things that very few other people volunteer to do. They put themselves in harm\u2019s way on purpose, like you said. He was going in. He wasn\u2019t trying to get out, and all of his compadres were doing the same thing, and they face death every time they go out on a call, and they really are not paid that much.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always thought, after living in New York City and… I remember a particular fire. At the end of a fire, they were going in to clear out debris, and the building blew up and a bunch of them lost their lives. It was a total shock and surprise. It was not terrorism or anything. It was just one of the quirks of the fire. That\u2019s when it hit me just how serious they are, what a great job — risky, dangerous job — they do that other people just take for granted that they\u2019re gonna be there when there\u2019s a fire.<\/p>\n

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