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The quotes from the World Trade Center site can be found in September Morning: Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City, compiled and edited by Sara Lukinson.
"Our Hitch in Hell" is a ballad by American poet Frank Bernard Camp, originally published as one of 49 [1] ballads in a 1917 collection entitled American Soldier Ballads, that went on to inspire multiple variants among American law enforcement and military, either as The Final Inspection, the Soldier's Prayer (or Poem), the Policeman's Prayer ...
Vincent Joseph Dunn (born May 12, 1935) is a retired firefighter who served the New York Fire Department for 42 years, rising in rank to Commander of Division 3 (Midtown Manhattan). A longtime contributing editor to Firehouse Magazine, he is the author of nine books on firefighting and one memoir.
James Braidwood (1800–1861) was a Scottish firefighter who was the first Master of Engines in the world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824. [1] He was also the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment and is credited with the development of the modern municipal fire service.
An off-duty firefighter saved a woman's life when he pulled her from a burning car without any protective equipment or a hose line, officials in Connecticut
Thomas Michael Gavin (born December 19, 1963) [2] is a third-generation New York City Fire Department firefighter of Irish Catholic origin, although he is a lapsed Catholic in adulthood. [1] [3] Tommy followed in his father's footsteps and became a firefighter in 1986.
"Fire and Ice" is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [ 1 ] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize -winning book New Hampshire .
Dennis Edward Smith (September 9, 1940 – January 21, 2022) was an American firefighter and author. He was the author of 16 books, the most notable of which is the memoir Report from Engine Co. 82, a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse from the late 1960s and into the 1970s. [1]