For many in this room, the 9/11 terrorist attacks are a distant memory, a horror that unfolded far away and on television screens and in newspapers. Some had not yet been born.

But Annabel Quintero, now 49, remembers.

Quintero, who grew up in Seattle before moving to New York City, recalled her harrowing escape from the 46th floor of the north tower after it was struck, the haunting images still etched in her mind. The faces of firefighters as they ascended the same stairwell she and others fled down.

Twenty-four years after the attacks, the acts of service she witnessed that day and in the days and weeks that followed remain an urgent inspiration, she said, “to show our love by fighting for justice.”

On Thursday, Seattle showed up to respond to the call. Hundreds of volunteers gathere

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