Yankees to Pay for Education of Killed NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos' Children

The nice gesture is part of George Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation.

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On Saturday, NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot and killed while inside their squad car, situated in front of the Tompkins Houses in Bed Stuy. Liu leaves behind a wife, whom he recently married, while Ramos has a 13-year-old son and another son in college.

In 1982, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who died in 2010, started the Yankee Silver Shield Foundation which offers financial assistance for the education of the children of New York City police officers, firemen and Port Authority employees who died in the line of duty. Steinbrenner started the initiative after watching a news report showing four children trailing their mother who clutched an American flag at the funeral as they buried their NYPD officer father who was killed on the job.  

Since the birth of Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation, thousands of children of the NYPD, FDNY, Port Authority workers and even those who lost a father or mother in the Sept. 11 attacks have had their educational costs covered.

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[via New York Daily News]

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