Tomorrow marks ten years since 9/11, when in four separate instances within a few hours, planes that were hijacked were flown into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. This was a day that changed America, and many will take time to remember those who were lost in those attacks. Sports wasn't immune to this, as not only were the baseball and football games were postponed in the days following the attacks, but the hockey world also lost two contributors on the Flight 175 that was to have headed from Boston to Los Angeles. Los Angeles Kings director of pro scouting Garnet "Ace" Bailey and amateur scout Mark Bavis were on that flight that ended up hitting one of the World Trade Center towers that fateful morning. Bailey had a fairly distinguished career as a player and would win seven Stanley Cups in his life, two as a player and five as a scout. Bavis had been an assistant coach at Harvard and Brown. He also had a hand in the Kings' drafting current NHL players Mike Cammalleri and David Steckel. Both Bailey and Bavis are connected not just for 9/11, but the legacies they leave behind. Many fundraisers were done in their name and they have all been designed to help kids be the people that Bailey and Bavis were: guys that led by example through their actions.
As the day nears, let us remember those who perished on that day and to carry on the legacies that they have left behind. Let us follow the examples of the Bailey and Bavis families and continue to honor those as they would have wanted.
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