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Never Forget: 11 September 2001
Posted by Jake on September 11, 2014
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/never-forget-11-september-2001-3/
Heart and soul of a hero.
Presented without comment.
Heroic New York boy gets firefighter funeral
Tyler Doohan, the 8-year-old upstate New York boy who rescued six relatives from a fire but died while trying to save his grandfather, will be laid to rest Wednesday with a ceremony and honor befitting a fallen firefighter, according to local fire officials.
Penfield Fire Company has kept an honor guard standing by the remains of the boy during calling hours since Monday, and at the end of a church service on Wednesday, Penfield Fire Chief Chris Ebmeyer will declare Tyler an honorary firefighter and present his family with a special fire helmet inscribed with the boy’s name.
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As firefighters and sheriff’s deputies responded to a 4:45 a.m. emergency call, Tyler was able to wake six other people in the small trailer, including two more children, ages 4 and 6, the fire officials said.
Then Tyler went back into the blaze to help his grandfather, who was disabled and would have been unable to get out of the home on his own. “By that time, the fire had traveled to the back of the trailer,” Ebmeyer said at the time. “Unfortunately, they both succumbed to heat and smoke.”
The pair were found together on a bed in the back room. It appeared that the boy was trying to lift his grandfather from the bed when he was overcome by the smoke and fire, fire officials said.
It’s a bit dusty in here.
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Posted by Jake on January 29, 2014
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/heart-and-soul-of-a-hero/
Never Forget: 11 September 2001
[Image originally found here, but it seems to be gone now.]
Posted by Jake on September 11, 2013
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/never-forget-11-september-2001-2/
Never Forget: 11 September 2001
[Image originally found here, but it seems to be gone now.]
Posted by Jake on September 11, 2012
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/never-forget-11-september-2001/
Memorial Day
Remember
Every year we set aside a day to remember those who have fallen in service and defense of our country. The purpose of this day tends to get forgotten amidst the bustle of the summer three-day-weekend, but the reminders are usually easy to see. Here in Blacksburg, because of Virginia Tech’s Corps of Cadets, we have the War Memorial Chapel, with it’s Pylons honoring former cadets who have fallen.
Memorial Court atop War Memorial Chapel at Virginia Tech.
Each pillar is engraved with the names and class year of VT alumni who have died while in service.
Remember
Posted by Jake on May 28, 2012
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/memorial-day-2/
Is it dusty in here?
Posted by Jake on December 19, 2011
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/is-it-dusty-in-here/
Presented without comment
The policeman stood and faced his God, Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining just as brightly as his brass.
“Step forward now, policeman. How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek? To my church have you been true?”
The policeman squared his shoulders and said, “No Lord I guess I ain’t,
because those of us who carry badges can’t always be a Saint.
I’ve had to work most Sundays, and at times my work was rough.
Sometimes I have been violent, because the streets are awfully tough.
But I never took a penny, that wasn’t mine to keep.
I worked a lot of overtime when the bills just got too steep.
And I never passed a cry for help, though at times I shook with fear.
And sometimes, God forgive me, I’ve wept unmanly tears.
I know I don’t deserve a place among the people here.
They never wanted me around except to calm their fear.
If you’ve a place for me here, Lord It needn’t be so grand.
I never expected or had too much, but if you don’t I’ll understand.”
There was a silence all around the throne Where the Saints had often trod.
As the policeman waited quietly for the judgment of his God.
“Step forward now, policeman, You’ve borne your burdens well.
Come walk a beat on Heaven’s streets You’ve done your time in Hell.”
Author: Unknown
Deriek W Crouse, VTPD
Deriek Wayne Crouse
August 17, 1972 – December 8, 2011
Fallen in the Line of Duty
Posted by Jake on December 12, 2011
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/presented-without-comment/
Support your overseas soldiers
Just in case you haven’t seen it elsewhere, or as a reminder if you have, Linoge is doing a fundraiser for Soldiers’ Angels, a non-profit charity supporting our soldiers abroad and at home.
“May No Soldier Go Unloved,” encapsulates the motivation behind Soldiers’ Angels.  The volunteers of Soldiers’ Angels work tirelessly to demonstrate active care and concern for veterans, the wounded, deployed service members and their families.
To date, our volunteers have sent hundreds of thousands of care packages and letters to “adopted” deployed service members; we have supplied the wounded with over 25,000 of our First Response Backpacks directly at the Combat Support Hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan and the major military hospital in Germany, as well as provided care and comfort to those in stateside military and VA facilities; we have provided emergency aid to military families in need; we have partnered with the Department of Defense to provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptops to over 6,000 severely-wounded servicemembers, as well as other technology that supports rehabilitation; we have provided flights to soldiers on leave or in emergency situations, and to their families wanting to be with them upon return from overseas; we provided Level III KEVLAR armored blankets to give personnel extra protection in their vehicles when it was needed early in the Iraq war; and we help to honor and uphold the families whose loved ones have paid the ultimate price for our freedom and safety. With the assistance of our generous supporters , the many volunteers of Soldiers’ Angels have accomplished this and much, much more on behalf of the grateful citizens of the United States of America.
What Linoge is doing is a drawing and prize giveaway, where every five dollars to Soldiers’ Angels nets you one “ticket” towards the prizes – and he has a lot of really good prizes, including one of the new (as yet unnamed) pocket holsters from Dragon Leatherworks and 3 Crimson Trace LightGuards! Go to Walls of the City for a complete list and the rules, then go check out the Soldiers’ Angels shops he links to – or just donate directly!
It’s a good cause, and you might even win some good stuff out of it. And we should all thank Linoge for making the effort.
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Posted by Jake on December 2, 2011
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/support-your-overseas-soldiers/
Quote of the day – 2011-09-11
Yes, I know that’s yesterday’s date. I didn’t post it yesterday, because yesterday was a day for remembering those who were murdered ten years ago, and for honoring those who gave their lives trying to save as many as they could. A day to firm our resolve that it will never happen again, and to remind ourselves that we must work to reclaim the freedoms we lost in a panicked and futile bid for an illusory “security.”
It was a day in which I gave these people the greatest remembrance an honor I could: I got on an ambulance and worked to help others.
It was not a day for politics, or for the particular anger that inspired this quote.
You see, the service at the site of the very tragedy it purported to memorialize had a very glaring omission – NYC mayor Bloomberg and his staff decided that there wasn’t “enough room” for firefighters. The very people who knowingly risked their lives that day to help others – and in hundreds of cases lost those lives. To this insult, which fills me with rage every time I contemplate it, I can only respond by quoting blogger Kathy Shaidle:
343 of them managed to fit into the exact same space 10 years ago…
To be more specific, three hundred and forty-three firefighters, 37 Port Authority police officers, 23 NYPD officers and three court officers.
You’re a bastard, Bloomberg. Every surviving responder who was there on that horrible day deserved to be there yesterday more than you did. They deserved to be there more than Obama, or Giuliani, or Bush, or any of your other high-profile VIPs and their retinues who might have been there. Until you had at an absolute minimum, one representative of every single station and shift that responded that day, you should have told those VIPs – yes, even Obama himself – to go pound sand.
So go sodomize yourself with a rusty chainsaw, Bloomberg.
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Posted by Jake on September 12, 2011
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/quote-of-the-day-2011-09-11/
Remember the heroes
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Posted by Jake on September 11, 2011
https://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/remember-the-heroes/
Curses! Foiled Again! 