Veterans Remember Brothers in Arizona Healing Field

Valley vet remembers 9/11 at Healing Field 
KPHO News
By Jason Volentine
Posted: Sep 12, 2015

"We're just taking care of our brother's boots,"
Alan Blume, an Iraq War veteran.

Alan Blume, an Iraq War veteran, and three other military men sat in the field of flags for hours on 9/11.

(Source: KPHO/KTVK)

TEMPE, AZ (KPHO/KTVK)
America paid a somber remembrance on the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In Tempe, nearly 3,000 flags planted in a Healing Field, each with a name card, pay tribute to each victim who died in the Twin Towers.

Every person who comes to see the Healing Field reflects in his or her own personal way.

"We're just taking care of our brother's boots," Alan Blume, an Iraq War veteran, said.

Blume and three other military men sat in the field of flags for hours on 9/11. They sat and shined the boots of fallen brothers who died in the terror attacks.

"I just came by this morning and noticed [the boots] were looking a little rough, so I had some extra polish in my car and decided to clean up a pair. It turned into two pair, three pairs," Blume said. He talked while spit-polishing a black combat boot to Army dress code specs in the fading sunlight at Tempe Beach Park Friday evening.
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