For many New Yorkers, the 9/11 attack feels like it happened just yesterday, but nearly 25 years have passed since the terrorist strike, and the FDNY wants to commemorate next year’s anniversary with a little something extra.
Along with the traditional somber reading of the victims’ names at Ground Zero, ceremony organizers on Tuesday announced plans for a commemorative podcast, a 9/11 25th anniversary emblem and a pre-9/11 service to honor firefighters who died that day and those who have died since from toxin-related ailments.
“It is hard to grasp that 25 years have passed since this department’s darkest days,” said the city’s outgoing Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker. “While a quarter of a century has passed, still, in many ways, it feels like yesterday.”
Tucker will likely atten

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