The proud dad of city firefighter Daniel Swift, the hero medic wounded in a roadside explosion in Iraq that killed two of his buddies, flew from his Bronx home to a German hospital yesterday to be with his son.
“I want to make sure he’s OK. He’s my boy,” said John Swift, a retired cop, before he left.
“Even if I get 20 minutes, I want to hold him and look him in the eyes and tell him he did a good job.”
Daniel Swift, 24, a firefighter at Ladder 43 in East Harlem, was riding in a Humvee outside of Baghdad when it ran over a bomb.
Two members from the 69th Infantry were killed: firefighter Christian Engeldrum and Long Island volunteer firefighter Wilfredo Urbina. At Landstuhl Hospital in Germany, doctors were fighting to save Swift’s right eye.