The daughter of a New York City firefighter who was killed on 9/11 is carrying on her family's legacy and making history!
Firefighter Kevin Smith, died at the age of 47 while responding to the attacks on the World Trade Center. According to ABC News, his daughter Josephine Smith, 34, made a promise that she'd become a firefighter and vowed to keep his legacy alive.
Today, she made it her mission to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a firefighter and is the first daughter of a 9/11 responder to join New York's fire department!
Speaking at her graduation ceremony, Smith said she felt "proud, happy, excited… [but] sad that my father couldn't be here."
"To see me now, he'd be so proud. I know he'd be happy and telling everybody how proud he is of me," she said to a packed crowd at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn.
"Training was tough — really tough," she said. "I thought about him when I was tired and wanted to stop. I thought about what he'd say: 'Keep going, keep going, keep pushing.'"
To all of our brave service men and women, thank you for your dedication, sacrifice and willingness to risk your lives to help keep others safe.
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