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It's #MitchTributeTuesday and we are sharing a message that went out to our staff 2 years after Mitch's passing. Everyone grieves differently. With that in mind, we will still implore all of you to not forget what May 15th, 2019 means to all of us. That day should forever have meaning to this department and to the fire service in general. On that day, Mitch made a sacrifice for all of us and left us with lessons learned the hard way, which is how most real lessons are learned. Regardless of your relationship with Mitch, you should recognize what that sacrifice means to all of us. We pay respect to the sacrifice that Mitch made, the price his family was forced to pay and the symbolism of that loss. We are not accountants, we are not bankers and we don’t work in the trades. Everyday that we put on our uniforms, kiss our families goodbye and leave our houses, we know that there is a chance we may not come home. This reality echoes through the history of the fire service and is why it is so steeped in time honored traditions. One such tradition is honoring the fallen with every ounce of respect we can give to the fallen and their family because we know that it represents the sacrifice we are all willing to make daily. So with all that said, how can we honor Mitch now? We can do it by showing support for his family and those closest to him that do feel his loss the most and we can do it by “strapping it on” everyday when we go to work and perform better than we did the day before. We can take those hard fought lessons to heart and do everything we can to make sure we send the rest of our crews home to their families in the morning. Complacency is a cancer in the fire service, losing situational awareness on those high risk med calls and failing to conduct rapid trauma searches. As the saying goes; “those that don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it”. So please make Mitch’s sacrifice mean something and look out for each other all the time. #MitchsMemorialWeek

This 2MMM is a President’s Day message about how we have an opportunity to lead (still) by how we live our life. Sponsored by Personal Injury Made Easy (PIMadeEasy .com) for medical providers who treat personal injury patients. 2MMM: What will be said at YOUR Funeral? For this President’s Day, I was reflecting on impact and legacy. I want you to imagine YOU died. It’s now YOUR funeral. Picture it. The people you know sitting to hear those closest talk about your life. What will those coming up say about YOU? What was YOUR Impact, Your Legacy, and how you Lived your LIfe? We do it for Presidents. Let’s do it for ourselves now. Listen as I talk about these three areas. Then I have a challenge for you that may change how you go about your life this week, and maybe just maybe, for much longer. So that how you live is also how you want to be remembered. And I’ll see YOU at the next 2MMM!

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Why me? How often do we find ourselves asking this usually in response to something bad that has happened to us individually. My wife likes to refer to this as my ‘pity potty’. Well, “Why me?” In this post carries a different meaning. It is asking why my life was spared and not someone else’s. I watched the 60 Minutes program focused on the 343 firefighters that lost their lives on 9/11 and the remaining firefighters who survived this tragic day in American history. Why was their lives spared and not the other 343’s? And although this segment didn’t focus on the other 2,000+ office workers who perished the same question might be asked by everyone who did escape the fiery inferno and eventual collapse. With my wife and I’s wedding anniversary on 9/11 (1999) and the fact that I experienced my own personal loss when my older sister Linda was killed by a drunk driver, I too have confronted this question “why me?” Instead of her. How would her life had played out over all these years I’ve had to live? Casualties of war, cancer patients, automobile accidents, natural disasters, terrorist bombings, violent acts, Covid, suicide … and the list goes on. Why them and not us? I’m not trying to be morbid here in this post but rather recognize that like the surviving firefighters of 9/11, we too may struggle with this very important question. Like death, this question does not need to squeeze the joy out of our lives but rather help us to appreciate it even more along with all of the other ‘why me’ers?’ Unfortunately, losing others is a part of life. It’s what you do with the life you continue to live that ultimately matters. Back to the 60 Minute segment, the NYCFD had to rebuild itself and in many cases family and friends stepped up and into the roles left behind. Of course they will always mourn their loved ones but they also will jump down off the pity potty to live a life well lived. Fact: no one fire fighter refused to follow their orders that day of the attack. I personally want to thank all of our public servants who had and have answered the call to keep us safe. Begs to ask another question … would I be brave enough to answer the call?

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