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Kings Jersey Front and Center at 9/11 Memorial

"This jersey is one of a kind."

A Los Angeles Kings' jersey placed front and center in New York City?

One hockey jersey is significant in a way that goes far beyond pucks and sticks and the competition of New York and LA on the ice. This 17-year-old LA Kings' hockey jersey is part of the newest exhibit of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum titled "Comeback Season."

This special exhibit is all about the sports community and focuses on how teams, players, fans and ordinary citizens came together following the horrific and tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.

"This jersey is one of a kind," says Warren Binder, who has kept the jersey in his private collection.

Binder is a Pasadena-based attorney and massive LA Kings' fan. But with a new exhibit at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, Binder decided the time had come to part ways with one of his most meaning possessions.

Binder gets emotional even thinking about jersey because of the messages that cover it. The messages were written by New York firefighters, police and first responders who moments out of their rescue efforts to document their work and remember the victims.

The special Kings' jersey is also signed by members of the New York Rangers hockey team as a way to remember Ace Bailey and Mark Bavis, two LA Kings' scouts that died on board United Flight 175, when it hit the twin towers.

"It's hard, and that's probably why it took so long, but at the same time, I feel a sense of relief," Binder says when asked it's difficult to part with the jersey.

The Comeback Season exhibit also depicts other iconic moments, like George W. Bush and his first pitch at Yankee Stadium during the 2001 World Series.

The goals of this special exhibit is to show how a nation recovered from tragedy and learned to cheer again.

"It's got the horror of the moment, but also the beauty and strength of the people coping with that moment," Mike Richter, who was playing as a goalie for the New York Rangers in 2001, says about the exhibit.

The Comeback Season will be open to the public until the summer of 2019.

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