{"id":117855,"date":"2002-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetskiworld.stage3.econtentsys.gr\/uncategorized\/8130\/"},"modified":"2002-11-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-20T00:00:00","slug":"8130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/8130\/","title":{"rendered":">Veterans complete trip up Atlantic on Jet Skis to Mark 9\/11 Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) \u0097 A group of veterans completed a 1,600-mile fundraising jet ski ride from Key West, Fla. to lower Manhattan to mark the 12th anniversary of the Sep.11 terror attacks. Families cheered the wounded vets as they pulled into the World Financial Center Marina on Wednesday, ending the final stage of the jet ski journey to raise money for charity. \u0093They don\u0092t call it Never Quit Challenge. for nothing, it definitely wasn\u0092t just going for a joyride,\u0094 Army PFC Jeffrey Glasser told WCBS 880&#8242;s Jim Smith Glasser was one of several wheelchair-bound vets who took part in the five-day ride. \u0093We like to call it a moving memorial on the water. We ride for those who are not here today and those who are too injured to be able to do it for themselves,\u0094 Glasser said. The six teams finished the ride on Sep.11, the 12th anniversary of the day Glasser decided he would serve his country. He now delivers motivational speeches and holds events to teach other vets to never quit. Photo courtesy: Jim Smith, CBSNEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) \u0097 A group of veterans completed a 1,600-mile fundraising jet ski ride from Key West, Fla. to lower Manhattan to mark the 12th anniversary of the Sep.11 terror attacks. Families cheered the wounded vets as they pulled into the World Financial Center Marina on Wednesday, ending the final stage of the jet ski journey to raise money for charity. \u0093They don\u0092t call it Never Quit Challenge. for nothing, it definitely wasn\u0092t just going for a joyride,\u0094 Army PFC Jeffrey Glasser told WCBS 880&#8242;s Jim Smith Glasser was one of several wheelchair-bound vets who took part in the five-day ride. \u0093We like to call it a moving memorial on the water. We ride for those who are not here today and those who are too injured to be able to do it for themselves,\u0094 Glasser said. The six teams finished the ride on Sep.11, the 12th anniversary of the day Glasser decided he would serve his country. He now delivers motivational speeches and holds events to teach other vets to never quit. Photo courtesy: Jim Smith, CBSNEWS","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117855\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=117855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117855\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117856\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=117855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=117855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=117855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}