As the nation pauses to remember September 11th, one man in Green Country carries the weight of that day with him every year. Ralph Winburn was an EMS responder with the FDNY when the Twin Towers were hit. Now living in Oklahoma, he shares what it was like to answer the call and why he still wears the uniform.

"It was my day off. Crystal blue skies. I was going to go look at the fall foliage. Then I saw the news, and I thought it was a made-for-TV movie," Winburn said. He made his way to ground zero from Queens through the Midtown Tunnel.

"This day, it [the commute] took about four minutes because there was no traffic. They would only let emergency vehicles in. So when we got to the beginning of the tunnel, somebody in the unit said, 'Let's pray.' We all held hands, and we prayed. We mad

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