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Mamdani joins veterans on NYC's first Remembrance Ruck across the Brooklyn Bridge
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran the full route of the city's first-ever Remembrance Ruck, which drew more than 1,000 people across the Brooklyn Bridge to honor post-9/11 service members and veterans.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined more than 1,000 New Yorkers on Sept. 13 for the city's first-ever Remembrance Ruck, a march across the Brooklyn Bridge honoring post-9/11 service members and veterans. Organized by the city's Department of Veterans' Services with New York Road Runners, the event set out from Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn and ended at Foley Square in Manhattan.
A short clip filmed by a participant along the route shows the mayor, in a dark jacket and backpack, smiling and pumping his fist at onlookers as he passes. "Literally ran into the Mayor of NYC at the Brooklyn Bridge ruck march today," the participant wrote. The video drew tens of thousands of likes.
Honoring 9/11 military heroes
Participants carried rucksacks filled with gear, and the mayor, along with many veterans, covered the entire route. Before the start, Mamdani recalled two Marines, Jason Thomas and Dave Karnes, who helped find trapped Port Authority police officers after the Sept. 11 attacks. "I know that this ruck will be difficult, but that is exactly why we are here," he told the crowd as heavy rain began to fall.
The ruck replaced the "Homecoming of Heroes" ticker-tape parade planned under the previous administration. Mamdani later called the march "an experience I will carry with me forever" and said too many veterans come home to isolation and food insecurity.
Spotlight on veteran suicide
The city's veterans department says suicide has claimed far more post-9/11 service members and veterans than military operations. Brown University's Costs of War Project estimates that 30,177 active-duty personnel and veterans of post-9/11 wars have died by suicide, compared with 7,057 killed in combat operations.
The march ended with a resource fair where veterans and military families could get help with housing, health care, mental health and financial benefits.
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