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Remembering 9/11: Parkville Man Shares Ground Zero, Shanksville Photos
Chuck Ritz, a social worker, motorcycle enthusiast and amateur photographer snapped these images from New York City and Pennsylvania.
"The motto is 'Never Forget,'" said Chuck Ritz of Parkville. "And I haven’t."
Ritz, a social worker and a motorcycle enthusiast, is an amateur photographer who has been snapping images at ground zero and the Flight 93 crash site since about a week after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"After it happened I just sat there and watched it. I thought, this isn’t really happening—so I went up to New York on the 18th of September to see what happened. I spent a whole day up there, came back with 800 photos," Ritz said.
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Check out this gallery of photos he's taken over the years.
Ritz is also one of the organizers of The Ride to Remember 9/11 benefiting the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, PA, the Wounded Warrior project, the Frank J. Battaglia Signal 13 Foundation and the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Burn Unit.
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The ride begins at the Harley Davidson store on Route 7 in Rossville on Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. and travels around I-695 to Harford Road, and ends at McAvoy's bar and restaurant
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