The marchers were joined by healthcare workers and the New York State Nurses Association and came from all over the country.
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"I know I had to be here and represent Bobby, and I'm going to spread his ashes over the Brooklyn Bridge today," said Debra McCoskey-Reisert.
The marchers wore yellow and walked to remember the victims and survivors of COVID-19.
The movement was started by Hannah Ernst, 15, from New Jersey, who never got to walk the Brooklyn Bridge with her grandfather, who died of COVID in May 2020.
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"Losing him was the hardest thing I've had to endure. Walking the Brooklyn Bridge was something I wanted to do with him - unfortunately, that didn't get to happen," Ernst said.
Walkers marched 1 million steps, surpassing their goal of taking 615,000 steps for lives lost to COVID-19.
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