If you are watching Fox tonight you will see the Fallen Firefighters in Emmitsburg, Va. story. We lost a firefighter last year, he was being honored there today. A large contingent from our fire department has been down there all weekend. Prayers for his widow and three sons are still welcome.
Besides the military, firefighters and cops are always in my prayers.
I read a really neat story in one of the Delaware papers yesterday. In the movie "Ladder 49" that openned Friday, there is a scene where 2 ladder trucks hoist the firefighter flag between them at a firefighter's funeral. One of those ladder trucks and at least some of the men on it, are from the Robbins Hose Volunteer Fire Company, which is the Fire Department of Dover, my former home town.
What made the story neat was that the movie theater did a showing of the film just for volunteer firefighters and their families on Thursday night. For the openning of the film Friday night - that ladder truck was sitting outside of the entrance to the mall where the theater is.
I thought it a nice gesture on the part of the theater and the mall.