[KYHAM] RE:Message on Firemen

[David A. Smith]

To Ky. Ham Mailman

In reference to Jacob Martin's statement about Heroes:

Speculation concerning fire police and rescue personnel doing their duty is
meaningless.  Of course, they would go in and do what they did rescuing many
people although many firefighters lost their lives.  In their own way, the
building officials who upgraded the emergency power, communication and
lighting systems in the twin towers after damage caused by a car bomb
several years earlier aided an orderly evacuation of unknown hundreds of
persons who otherwise would have been entrapped in the rubble.  Can a wise
engineer or public official be a hero - of course.

Here in South Eastern Michigan, many nameless heroes used their snowmobiles
to rescue over 1,000 freezing stranded motorists in a blizzard that blocked
I-75 1n 1986.  Citizens of the town of Luna Pier opened their homes to feed
and provide shelter for all of them doubling the population of the town
overnight.  Word went out on the news media of the need and nameless persons
arrived at the town hall to carry out the task.

I recommend Stephen Crane's "Red Badge of Courage" to anyone who has not
read it.
David Alkire Smith
W8YZ



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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:11:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: jacob martin <jw84@yahoo.com>
To: kyham@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [KYHAM] RE:September 11th & What It Means To Me

Hi,
 I just want to ask. How many of them
Police&firefighters would have went in the WTC if they
knew it would have went down? I do appreciate and
respect ALL Police and firefighters, But the real
Heros are the ones fighting for us in our Military,
 My prayers go out to the ones that lost lovedones.
God bless!
       73's
              -JW-