One of the most emotional occasions happens each year when the Freedom Alliance Scholarship recipients make their journey to Arlington National Cemetery to honor the parents who have died in service to our country. This year was no different, with 14 students coming from around the country for a weekend in the nation’s capital.   […]

Thirteen years ago, on the morning of September 11, Stephen Siller of the New York City Fire Department’s Squad Company 1, ran through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel with 60 pounds of gear on his back. His destination was the World Trade Center in Manhattan, where a plane had flown into one of the Twin Towers.   […]

Fourteen sons and daughters of our country’s fallen heroes attended this year’s Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund (FASF) Weekend Retreat. For some participants, this was their first retreat, while for others it was a return trip. Even so, for all it was landmark event.   One great intention in the work of Freedom Alliance is to […]

A Relay for Life volunteer, CARES Community Service Coordinator, and Peer Mediator, Shannon Zangas is a new Freedom Alliance Scholarship recipient from Butler, PA, who aside from her impressive extracurricular activities is pursuing a degree in International Studies at Dickinson College. Lieutenant Colonel Robert J. Zangas, Shannon’s father, was killed on March 9, 2004, in […]

The Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk is an annual event that honors our nation’s first responders and military heroes. Scheduled in September, the run comprises the route that firefighter Stephen Siller took on the eleventh, twelve years ago, when he heard a plane had struck one of the Twin Towers. Retrieving his gear […]