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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Foundation established 32 years ago by George Steinbrenner will pay for education of children of slain NY City police officer-Bill Madden

12/21/14, "Yankees will pay for education of children of NYPD cop Rafael Ramos who was killed while on duty Saturday," NY Daily News, Bill Madden, Teri Thompson

"George Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation has, for 32 years, provided for the education of the children of New York City cops, firefighters and Port Authority employees who were killed in the line."

"Yankee owner George Steinbrenner died in 2010, but his appreciation for the men in blue who protect New York City lives on.

For 32 years, Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation has provided for the education of the children of New York City police officers, firemen and Port Authority employees who died in the line of duty, and will do so for the family of NYPD officer Rafael Ramos, gunned down by a cold-blooded killer Saturday along with his partner, Wenjian Liu.

The foundation will pay for the education of Ramos' son, 13-year-old Jaden, and another son who is in college. Liu, who was recently married, had no children.

Steinbrenner started his foundation in 1982 after seeing a news account of four children flanking their mother and folding an American flag at the funeral of their father, an NYPD officer who had been killed in the line of duty.

"Who's going to take care of these kids," Steinbrenner asked his friend, former Olympian Jim Fuchs, who would run the foundation until his death, also in 2010. "We are."

The foundation, now run by Fuchs' daughter Casey, has paid for the educations of thousands of children of fallen NYPD, FDNY, state police and Port Authority workers in the tri-state area, as well as 700 children who lost a parent in the terrorists attacks on Sept. 11, 2001." via Free Rep.





Added, 12/22/14, "This is Isamil Brinsley, 28 who shot dead two NYPD cops in an 'execution style' attack," Facebook, via UK Daily Mail.
12/20/14, "Two New York policemen executed in broad daylight by man who shot his girlfriend before bragging on Instagram that he was going to get revenge for deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown," UK Daily Mail, by Mia De Graaf, Kieran Corcoran 

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