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This is a public thank you to the emergency personnel in New York and Washington DC, and in all our cities. Today is a horrific, huge example of what they risk facing for our sakes.
They're estimating 200 firefighters and 75 or so police officers died. So far.
They did their jobs: they ran in to help people out. They ran in to evaluate adjacent buildings, to control and help, to evacuate people.
They ran in. And it collapsed.
You can't tell me they didn't know, going in, that that could happen. They may or may not have expected it but they must have seen it. And they stayed, and they kept trying.
In smaller scale, they risk this every day. This is just...the worst example of all they can be asked to do.
Thank you, to everyone who does this. And thank you, also, to the many people who don't do this every day but who, put on the spot, do it during a crisis. I remember a news piece about a maintenance worker who ran back in to retrieve a handicapped man who was stuck.
Thank you. For risking your life, and your health, and your ability to sleep at night.
Thank you, to everyone who cares, to everyone who helps, who reaches out.
I can't decide if this is the triumph or the tragedy of humanity, that we will die for each other, even for strangers.
I think it is both.
They're estimating 200 firefighters and 75 or so police officers died. So far.
They did their jobs: they ran in to help people out. They ran in to evaluate adjacent buildings, to control and help, to evacuate people.
They ran in. And it collapsed.
You can't tell me they didn't know, going in, that that could happen. They may or may not have expected it but they must have seen it. And they stayed, and they kept trying.
In smaller scale, they risk this every day. This is just...the worst example of all they can be asked to do.
Thank you, to everyone who does this. And thank you, also, to the many people who don't do this every day but who, put on the spot, do it during a crisis. I remember a news piece about a maintenance worker who ran back in to retrieve a handicapped man who was stuck.
Thank you. For risking your life, and your health, and your ability to sleep at night.
Thank you, to everyone who cares, to everyone who helps, who reaches out.
I can't decide if this is the triumph or the tragedy of humanity, that we will die for each other, even for strangers.
I think it is both.
