Thomas Hobbes, a philosopher of the 1600s, wrote the following: “Hereby it is manifest that, during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.”
如果，随着伟大的托马斯霍布斯说，生活是对每个男人的每个男人的战争，那么我们，消防员和支持和关心消防员的人参加了一个有意义的生活真正有关减轻了这种战争以某种方式，以各种方式，使生活更安全，更安全和令人满意的方式。
今天，消防服务在一个有趣的时间内发现了一个有趣的时间，一个巨大的发现和伟大的辩论，巨大进步和同样令人不安的批评。他们说每一代都有机会定义自己;他们说每一代都有一个季节，这是真的。但除此之外，伟大的职业有多个季节，不仅仅是几代人;像军事服务，执法，医学，神职人员一样的伟大呼叫，以及最尤其是消防服务的特点是他们所知的特征，它们将永远是所知的，并且该角色具有定义它的特征和美德。它有原则和道德，使其参与者限制并同时解放我们，以努力完成我们的使命的规定。
当我们审查伟大的消防员时，他们每个人的持久愿景就是真正的消防员和一个女演员，特别是陈述能力，良好的礼仪，克制和性格的权威和道德的融合。很明显，您如何以荣誉，勇气和文明为自己的方式进行自己的方式，由您的背景和教育决定。我们从父母那里收到的大部分教育和培训。乔治华盛顿被告知说，“我所欠我的母亲。我归因于我从她收到的道德，智力和体育生活中的所有成功。“
消防员的角色应该涉及某些基本原则，如奉献使命，忠诚于我们的消防员，尊重权威，以及反映最高道德理想的愿望。对于我们来说，对于消防员来说，一个原则升高的原则，较高的呼唤只是我们永远不会在任何情况下留下任何人。首先是呼唤我们的人是，需要我们的人是第一批，无论是富人还是穷人，像我们或不同的那样，精神健康或精神病患者，为社会或生活中的慷慨，我们将留下任何人在后面。美国勇敢的座右铭是“以前的荣誉”，“荣誉露天奥尼亚。”
为了拥抱这种消防服务角色，我们必须相信更高的原则，更大的理想和崇高的考虑因素。Benjamin Desraeli曾经说过，“用伟大的想法培养你的思想;相信英雄制造英雄。“我们可以用英勇的梦想灌输消防员，我们可以成为我们社区和彼此的荣誉和诚信的象征。我们的行业有着英雄主义的传统。它经常被认为，消防员可以获得退休或死亡的最高赞扬是他生活和工作根据消防服务的最佳传统。在我们的传统中，受到威胁的，有需要的人，绝望首先是我们的战术，在我们的战略中，并在我们的所有考虑因素中。
Almost 20 years ago, American fire service sage Tom Brennan issued a dire warning: “We are losing our fire service; it is time to take it back.” In response to Tom’s warning, little has been done, little has changed, and much has been lost. But it is not too late to repair. Fortunately, the bedrock principle of our beloved industry has not changed. It is still held dearly by all true firefighters; by those who Roosevelt coined “are in the arena”; by those Captain Hall said “so justly value their own true dignity of character”; who place so high a value on their virtue that all other inferior considerations pale on reflection and who have unflinchingly refused to be influenced by changing popular culture, faddish trends, and self-serving and self-proclaimed industry elite whims and fancies.
This principle that we leave no one behind, simplicity disguises its strength, its unquestionable goodness defies blemish, and its fundamental integrity subdues assaults. We will leave no one behind, not by intention or omission, not for self-preservation or self-interest, not physically, not emotionally, not spiritually, we will not leave anyone behind.
普通的消防员明白这件事并坚持我们承诺的使命，我们的神圣荣誉不是一个或一个致命的一个，而且我们永远不会让自己或其他任何人随意地以伤害或随便地伤害。Rather, we profess that our mission is to care for, protect, and defend our fellow citizens’ lives, property, and material well-being in ways that have been carefully vetted, thoroughly examined, and diligently rehearsed in a wide variety of styles and situations. And in doing so, we pledge that we leave no one behind.
Firefighters are men and women who embody many exemplary virtues, but unquestionably our honor is utmost. The world trusts us implicitly to be colorblind, status neutral, gender indifferent, and unfalteringly trustworthy. Because we embrace “Honor Before All,” hopefully we can be the difference, the example, perhaps the exception; by being that symbol of humanity, we might soften or hopefully end the war Hobbes so eloquently depicted.
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