He keeps a room in his Sparrow Bush home dedicated to the firefighters who sacrificed their lives that day.

"I ended up getting down to the World Trade Center at about 11:30 at night and when I got down there, it was like something out of a movie," said Edwards. "The closer you got to the World Trade Center the thicker the white dust became."

For two weeks straight, Chris and his FDNY brothers dug through the rubble.

"There was a list of over 600 firefighters that came out on Wednesday of 600 firefighters that were missing and you start seeing all the names of guys that you knew," said Edwards.

Nineteen years later he still gets choked up thinking of his brothers who were lost and never found.

He keeps the pictures of the 343 firemen who were killed that day on his wall.

"I tell everybody the bad was bad, but the good was the greatest that day and it will always be that way," said Edwards. "When you think of the rescues that were made and the sacrifices, people that sacrificed their lives to save total strangers."

Before the pandemic hit, he traveled the country with the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers foundation, aboard its mobile 9/11 museum, speaking to crowds from Georgia to Utah about September 11 and the importance of that day.