Rob Finger III

For context, this was a post that I wrote and designed for the WETM 18 News social media pages. However ultimately we ended up going a different direction. That’s not to say that this was censored, it really wasn’t, I was able to put elements of this post in the captions of the one we ended up posting, but we wanted the graphic to be cleaner and less wordy. That said, I did not want this to fall into the folders of our graphics having never been posted.

9/11 is a day that hits close to home for me. My father was a firefighter for the first 20 years of my life, and I grew up in Manlius Fire Dept’s Station 1 (which has now become a Taco Bell, but I’m glad they at least saved the building). To think of my father possibly being one of the 343 that lost their lives that day, it hits very close. The sight of trucks rushing to a scene always gets me in the feels because I know those are the bravest men this world has seen. Riding their scarlet chariots into battle against the fierceness of nature.

So when you see a firefighter, thank them for the bravery they put on whenever they don their helmets. They are the ones who risk their lives to save ones they don’t even know.