A fundraiser for the veteran and 9/11 charity Tunnel to Towers has blown past the $17,000 mark after just a week of action by The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam.
Kassam is planning to run in the A+ rated charity’s annual 5km in New York this September, his fourth time taking part, with over $50,000 raised in previous years combined.
This year, Kassam is assembling a team of runners involved with The National Pulse and Steve Bannon’s War Room. Announcements will be made in the next few weeks.
Commenting on the event and the money raised, Kassam said on Memorial Day: “Tunnel to Towers is a fantastic charity that spends its money judiciously, helping the families of those who suffered as a result of 9/11, and veterans as well as their bereaved families, too. I’m honored so many people have chipped in after just one week of fundraising, and I hope we can cruise past our total from last year, which was over $35,000. Thank you all.”
Tunnel to Towers was conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, when Stephen Gerard Siller, a New York City firefighter, died trying to save others during the World Trade Center attacks. Siller was off duty when he heard a plane hit the North Tower on his scanner. He drove to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, but it was closed, so he strapped on 60 pounds of gear and ran through the tunnel to the Twin Towers, where he was killed minutes later in the collapse. Siller left behind five children under the age of seven.
