After 9/11, this Kansas town forged an unlikely bond with the FDNY. It is honored in tumbling steel.

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: September 6, 2026

Words: 2,029

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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ANTHONY — Why?

That’s the word that hovers over Memorial Park here, just before dusk on an evening in early September when the wind swells from the southwest and the swaying branches of the trees break the rays of the setting sun into dancing shafts of gold.

There is peace here, the kind of tranquility that settles over a small town at the drowsy end of the working day. This community of 2,108 in south …

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