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By Ron Kanterman

Welcome, brothers and sisters, to my journal. My hope for this journal is to bring you information you can use, that will make you think and make you laugh, and perhaps make you cry. While I’ll try to entertain you, this is no YouTube column! We’ll discuss real issues affecting the fire service today. Sometimes it will be atraining教训，有时是对特定事件的评论，有时是有争议的。如果我看到或听到您应该知道的事情，我会告诉您。

如果您认为这很有用, share it. If it makes you laugh, enjoy it; and if it makes you cry, so be it. We’re all in this together.
My first entryis called “A Much Needed Break.” Take a read on it.
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For those of you who have been to the National Fire Academy(NFA) for classes, meetings, or for the annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend, you’re intimately familiar with the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. If you haven’t been there yet (you all need to get there someday), the monument is surrounded by flags and headstones listing the names of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice since 1981, when Congress authorized the memorial. (Go tofirehero.org, the Web site of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) for a photo tour and to see what the NFFF does for the families of our fallen.)
这背景包括以下的旗帜tities: the NFFF, the state of Maryland, the American flag (in the center), the Department of Homeland Security, and the NFA. These flags are placed at half staff for three days for every firefighter lost in the line of duty in the United States. With our recent average of 100 line-of-duty deaths (LODDs) per year (93 in 2009), the flags are hardly ever up to full staff. When they are up, the mood of those who work on the campus is a bit different. You can hear people passing each other in the halls of the NFA and the Emergency Management Institute saying, “Good morning. It’s a great day on the campus, isn’t it?” Any day that the flags are up is a great day on the campus–and a great day for all of us.
I got on campus Saturday，8月14日，准备教六天的课程。我在C构建中签到了，将我的东西从车上拿到房间，然后将我的传统步行走到纪念馆。旗帜升起。那是校园里的美好夜晚。第二天早上开始。（学校从周日开始的六天课程开始，并于周五结束。）当我和我的联合教师定居时，我告诉课堂上，这是校园里的美好一天，并告诉他们为什么。它将他们放在本周剩余的时间里。每天都过去，除了星期四，旗帜每天都在升起。
发生了什么？我们失去了一个人吗？感谢上帝，不。纪念周末荣誉卫队来自华盛顿特区，以取回大厦大楼上飞行的美国国旗。然后，荣誉卫队将花几个小时，在纪念馆举行并降低美国国旗，以便家庭可以receive a flag and treasure it, holding on to the honor that had been bestowed on the flags and their fallen firefighters. That’s right. A detail in full Class A uniforms does this every year with little or no recognition or notice. The members do it to honor our fallen and for the honor of doing it. Most of us don’t know who they are, but他们知道他们是谁。在发现为什么旗帜被拆除之后，我放松了一下，知道有一个充分的理由。当荣誉卫队完成任务时，成员将所有原始旗帜放回了顶部。
我们在星期五下午在E礼堂毕业了五堂学生。这是通常的荣誉仪式。督Ent Denis Onieal发表了一个雄辩的主题演讲，每个小组都走过舞台，获得了证书，握手，并祝贺他们的工作做得好，并对他们的讲师表示由衷的言论。
轮到我们上课了。我本周的伴侣印第安纳波利斯（国际）消防局营负责人（ret。）克莱德·普菲斯特（Clyde Pfister）登上领奖台。我的工作是交付- 微小的言论。克莱德打电话给名字。我简短地谈到了学生所做的辛勤工作，他们的决心，驱动力以及将其全部带回家的承诺以有所作为。我总是提到纪念馆，并要求礼堂中的所有人尽一切努力“尽力而为，在他们的兄弟姐妹之间和悲剧之间进入，并帮助我们缩小纪念馆并保持旗帜。”然后，它像货运火车一样打我：我去过校园数百次，并且连续八天从未在纪念馆周围看到旗帜。我实际上很欣喜。我开了回家，实际上他们已经整整一周了。我告诉毕业生和员工，这不仅是遇到新朋友并接受过一些教育的学生的特殊周，而且这也很特别，因为他们在我们可能称之为“异常”的过程中就在那里。但这应该是异常吗？这应该不是常态吗？ Shouldn’t the flags be up all the time? I charged the entire audience to go home and help the effort to achieve this goal.
我也为你们所有人收费。帮助我们在埃米特斯堡保持旗帜。尽一切努力帮助努力。系扣，放慢脚步，吃得正确，进行一些运动，在某些东西看起来不正确时说话，然后思考。保持健康，保持安全。

Ron Kantermanis a 35-year veteran of the fire service. He holds a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees and is a career fire chief in southeast Connecticut. He is an advocate for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and serves as chief of operations for the annual Memorial Weekend ceremonies each year in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He lectures on a variety of topics around the country.

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