"They are your heroes''

[The Straight Story]

In his 36 years of teaching, Joseph Pizzo, a teacher at Black River Middle School in Chester, said he had never seen an entire room of seventh graders give standing ovations to a guest speaker.

But for two consecutive years, Will Jimeno, a Port Authority police officer and 9/11 first responder who was portrayed in the movie "World Trade Center" got that reaction, when telling students about his experiences on the day that changed history nearly 10 years ago.

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According to Pizzo, Jimeno pointed around the room to the teachers present, and renounced his given title of "Hero".

"They are your heroes,'' Pizzo remembers him saying.

http://holmdel.patch.com/articles/state-releases-new-k-12-curriculum-dealing-with-911-and-terrorism-3

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