Poem for National Fallen Firefighters Weekend

Poem for Fallen Firefighters Weekend

In Memory of Fallen Firefighters

Where does this courage, this strength, this instinct come from

To rush into danger when all are running away

To feel the call to risk one’s life, limbs, lungs

To help total strangers–

Who may be of any origin, color or creed

Who may be what Some would call Bad or Good as people go

That does not matter,

These Firefighters, bearers of the Maltese Cross and

the traditions of so many– all over the world– with them

Have once again shown what the Human Will and Spirit Can Do

We Pray for the Them, in All the Seasons, All Over the World

And in Our Land of American Dreams

And for their families and all their friends and Brothers and Sisters in Arms

We Salute them.

And pray too for all who have worked beside them, and will go on

Following this Call to Arms, in, what has so aptly been called

“A War that Never Ends.”

Lawrence Kreger