Welcome to the new home for the 9/11 Patch Project. Formally the National Firefighters 9-11 Memorial Patch project, the short name has become over time; the 9/11 Patch Project.

 

How it all Began:

The picture above is the end-of-the-ride ceremonies for the FDNY Thank You Amercia Tour. Here is where I met Dan Rowan and 4 other FDNY bike riders who rode from FDNY Station 33 all the way to Pasadena, CA. They ended up a little more than a mile from the station I had been at for nearly 15 years.

It was at this ceremony, that I unveiled a design for a memorial patch with the vision of getting this patch on the uniformed shoulders of firefighters across Amercia.

The project kicked off in January of 2002 and aftger sending out flyers, orders were coming into the Valenica Project HQ's at about 25-50 per day. This went on for months. By September 11th of 2002, the first check of $15,000 arrived at the UFA Widows and Children's Fund office.

For the years that followed, thousands of organizations would come forward to participate; including our U.S. Military and firefighters from 21 other countries.

Below, you can see a Belgium Firefighter who is wearing the 9/11 Patch on the front of his Class A uniform: