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Saying Goodbye To A Friend
We best memorialize our brethren by remembering the lessons they teach us.I actually started writing this post six months ago. It’s probably not like you’d think. I had my initial moments of grief when...
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Giving As Much As We Have
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." – Arthur Ashe The facts are not in yet...
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Gone Shrimping
I grew up in the urban Northeast. In the thirty years I have been in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, I have had a few laughs about my cluelessness with the things a "boy growing up in these parts"...
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Learning an Unintended Lesson From FDNY
As many of you know, recently I was teaching a truck company operations course for Task Force 1 in Gulfport, Mississippi. Prior to making chief, I spent the vast majority of my career on the truck,...
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Hey, Watch This!
We here at Firehouse Zen (that would be me) believe not necessarily in criticism but in critical thinking. This is the part where some of you should probably go ahead and sign off the page. Like I...
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