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He remembered his slain father as the only man he knew who enjoyed going to work.
Christopher Ganci - the son of FDNY Chief of Department Peter Ganci, the highest-ranking uniformed officer killed on 9/11 - joined the ranks of the city's Bravest yesterday.
"I want to make him proud," said Ganci, 29, the valedictorian of his FDNY academy class.
Ganci said his courageous father loved the job for one reason - he got to help people when they needed it the most.
"We did indeed win the lottery," Ganci told his fellow "probies" during a graduation ceremony at Brooklyn College.
Ganci's class already knows the meaning of sacrifice. Nine of the graduates served in the military in Afghanistan or Iraq, and six lost family members in the 9/11 attacks.
Probationary Firefighter Christopher Howard - whose father, Port Authority Police Officer George Howard, was killed on 9/11 - said he and his family understand the danger of being a firefighter. But that has not deterred him.
"Since I was a little kid I decided to be a firefighter," he said, recalling his father. "I hope I can be half the man he was."
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