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(98,375 posts)You hijacked my OP that honored FF with your crap. Stop it just stop it. You double down and that makes you look foolish!
Thousands of U.S. firefighters mourn comrade killed in Boston blaze
(Reuters) - Thousands of firefighters from across the United States lined the streets of a Boston suburb on Wednesday to grieve for one of two firefighters who died battling a blaze in a downtown apartment building.
In front of St. Patrick's Church in Watertown, where the funeral was held for Boston Fire Department Lieutenant Edward Walsh, a gigantic American flag hung from two ladder trucks assigned to local fire companies.
Walsh, 43, and Firefighter Michael Kennedy, 33, died on March 26 while fighting a fire in a four-story apartment house in Boston's historic Back Bay neighborhood.
Seventeen firefighters were injured from among some 150 who responded. None of the tenants were hurt.
Firefighters from New York, Chicago and Miami joined the procession ahead of the funeral.
Brendan Gurry, a firefighter from Newark, New Jersey, said he and about nine others from his department had traveled 300 miles to attend the funeral.
"I would travel as far as my money would take me to show respect for someone who gave the ultimate sacrifice," said Gurry, 32, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside Boston. "It's an honor thing."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/02/us-usa-boston-firefighters-idUSBREA310S820140402