August 18 ~ Bill Groneman ~ Writer, Musician, 9/11 First Responder
11:00 a.m. at the Woodward Mansion—Ticket price $40.
Each generation has had at least one incident that they felt changed their lives forever. Eighty years ago, the attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the nation. Almost 60 years ago President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. This September it will have been 20 years since the attack on the United States that brought down the Twin Towers in New York City. At our August Summer Luncheon, we will hear a first-hand report from Bill Groneman, a former Captain with FDNY Engine Company 308, who was one of 16,000 members of the department who responded to the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. He plans to go back to New York on September 11, 2021, the 20-year anniversary of the disaster that forever changed our way of life. Mr. Groneman has a degree in history and was researching and writing about the Alamo long before he retired from his 29-year career with the Fire Department in New York. Since moving to the home of the Alamo he has continued to write and make many guest appearances to share the history he has studied and lived.