by Hank Berrien
Daily Wire
After the 9/11 attacks in 2001 that destroyed the World Trade Center, three firefighters, Daniel McWilliams, George Johnson and William “Billy” Eisengrein, were photographed in an iconic picture of them raising the American flag at Ground Zero.
In 2017, when McWilliams joined a memorial mass to honor deceased members of the Vulcan Society, a fraternal group of black FDNY firefighters, he was barred from holding a flag in the color guard. When he asked to be part of the color guard, the president of the society, Regina Wilson, then Vulcan Society president, asked McWilliams to “help in a different capacity” because he was not black.