Be Not Afraid

When the dust settled on September 11, 343 firefighters were listed as missing, and later pronounced dead. In this excerpt from her upcoming book, Lynn Tierney, then a deputy commissioner at the Fire Department of New York, writes about the difficult task of eulogizing her colleagues. EulogiesThere came a time in my life, through the autumn of 2001, when I wrote roughly 100 … [Read more...] about “Be Not Afraid”