Big Blue

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. Eulogies There came a time in my life, through the autumn of 2001, when I wrote … [Read more...] about “Be Not Afraid”