For decades to come people will ask of each other, where were you? I am sitting with Arnold Burns, the chairman of the boys and girls club of America, talking about the needs of youth. I have known this former deputy attorney general of the United States for twenty-five years, and because I am on the board of advisers. We happened to run into each other the way New Yorkers often meet, in an unlikely place. Jimmy Boyle is, without a doubt, the most beloved man within the New York fire department family. He is kind of a man who looks you in the eye, and when he does you know he is interested in you. Jimmy found early on his career that he had a gift for getting things done, and for only one reason people trusted him and would do anything
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He is a deputy chief, but since he is also the division commander of the 1st Division, he wears one gold star instead of the usual gold eagle that his title would warrant. He was the bearing of a cardinal, very secure in his elevated position, yet humble, and every moment conscious that he also a member of the flock. He is also very good at paperwork, although it is certainly not his first love.
Joe Pfeifer been a Battalion chief for five years, and has been working the downtown area with the first Battalion. He is a thin, athletic man, with a studious air. If you saw him in a suit, you might take him for a lawyer, or a financial expert. If you mention his name in a group of firefighters, they invariably say, chief Pfeifer? The best. On this pleasant morning he is standing in his shirt sleeves at the intersection of church street. It is 8:48 and the day is already summer clear.
Somebody tells us that the command post got wiped out! We have no radios, so we do not know for sure if that is true. With all the dust, it is still like we are in a snowstorm. It is strangely quiet. And that somebody would come by and say something to us. One guy says we must have lost one hundred at the command post. We did not know where the command post was. I can’t stop thinking that Jean was on the roof. In this kind of emergency would she go on the roof? It is faster than going down …show more content…
He is a yellow lab retriever, and he might have been the brightest dog, I have ever seen. I named him after the brightest star in the Canis Major constellation. He is a great dog, well trained in explosives detection, and he is also a great family pet. Our job is to check every truck that comes in and around the building for explosives. It is a safety hazard if you do not check the trucks.
It is all devastation. We are walking in the piles of debris searching for the people that are lost, and I hear this strange sound, muffled coming from below us somewhere. It is chief Picciotto megaphone. It is the first time in twenty-eight years that he has carried a megaphone and especially carried a megaphone into a job, and now he has it in the alarm position. It goes off like a police siren. I follow the sound until I come to a sort of a void, and I look into it. There is an open space in there and I see Chief Picciotto. Operation Enduring Freedom, the American-led international effort to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and destroy Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network based there, began on October 7. Within two months, U.S. forces had effectively removed the Taliban from operational power, but the war continued, as
He is a deputy chief, but since he is also the division commander of the 1st Division, he wears one gold star instead of the usual gold eagle that his title would warrant. He was the bearing of a cardinal, very secure in his elevated position, yet humble, and every moment conscious that he also a member of the flock. He is also very good at paperwork, although it is certainly not his first love.
Joe Pfeifer been a Battalion chief for five years, and has been working the downtown area with the first Battalion. He is a thin, athletic man, with a studious air. If you saw him in a suit, you might take him for a lawyer, or a financial expert. If you mention his name in a group of firefighters, they invariably say, chief Pfeifer? The best. On this pleasant morning he is standing in his shirt sleeves at the intersection of church street. It is 8:48 and the day is already summer clear.
Somebody tells us that the command post got wiped out! We have no radios, so we do not know for sure if that is true. With all the dust, it is still like we are in a snowstorm. It is strangely quiet. And that somebody would come by and say something to us. One guy says we must have lost one hundred at the command post. We did not know where the command post was. I can’t stop thinking that Jean was on the roof. In this kind of emergency would she go on the roof? It is faster than going down …show more content…
He is a yellow lab retriever, and he might have been the brightest dog, I have ever seen. I named him after the brightest star in the Canis Major constellation. He is a great dog, well trained in explosives detection, and he is also a great family pet. Our job is to check every truck that comes in and around the building for explosives. It is a safety hazard if you do not check the trucks.
It is all devastation. We are walking in the piles of debris searching for the people that are lost, and I hear this strange sound, muffled coming from below us somewhere. It is chief Picciotto megaphone. It is the first time in twenty-eight years that he has carried a megaphone and especially carried a megaphone into a job, and now he has it in the alarm position. It goes off like a police siren. I follow the sound until I come to a sort of a void, and I look into it. There is an open space in there and I see Chief Picciotto. Operation Enduring Freedom, the American-led international effort to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and destroy Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network based there, began on October 7. Within two months, U.S. forces had effectively removed the Taliban from operational power, but the war continued, as