To all who lost their lives that day, RIP, you will never be forgotten.

I raise my glass to salute them.  I've been on the job long enough to have weekends off, but if I worked today I would put the black ribbon on my shield....authorized or not.

commercial Budweiser did after 9/11.  It aired only once.

19 members of the Emergency Medical Services community (only some were actually employed by the FDNY) perished in the attacks on the WTC on September 11th, 2001.

Mario Santoro - EMT *
Keith Fairben - EMT *
David Marc Sullins - EMT
Hector Tirado - EMT
James Pappageorge - Paramedic
Andre Fletcher - EMT
James Coyle - EMT
Joe Henry - EMT
Karl Joseph - EMT
Sean Tallon - EMT
Kevin Pfeifer - Paramedic
Yamel Merino - Paramedic
Richard Pearlman
Ricardo 'Ricky' Quinn - Paramedic
Carlos Lillo - Paramedic *
Mark Schwartz - EMT
David P. Lemagne - EMT
Mitch Wallace - EMT
Je Jung - EMT

* Mario Santoro had done a tour swap with someone and was working with Keith Fairben on 10 David, the BLS truck crushed when the first tower fell. Keith was just about to be promoted after completing a Paramedic program. I know this because Keith & I were not only classmates but in the same lab group. I used to joking call him the 'Purple Avenger' because of the purple gloves he wore that NY Presbyterian stocked. Carlos Lillo worked Per Diem at the same place as my fulltime gig. I had met or was acquainted with pretty much everyone on that list, some more than others and to this day, when appropriate, I take the opportunity to remind people that we were there, too, and some made the ultimate sacrifice.

Never forgive, never forget!

Edited for spelling