TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Sept. 11 is a day of remembrance, and thousands of people across the nation are doing something good for people in need.

In Tampa, hundreds of thousands of meals were packed up to help feed the hungry at the Yuengling Center.

In total, there were over 1,400 volunteers making more than 410,000 meals of jambalaya to be distributed throughout the Tampa Bay community. Across the entire country, 30,000 volunteers got to work to pack up 9 million meals.

Twenty-four years ago, the tragedy of 9/11 not only claimed thousands of lives but changed the United States forever.

"The two gentlemen that started this in 2002, one lost family members and recognized that over the years, it may just be for the history books, and wanted it to be a living, breathing, memorial day for doi

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