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“People are always asking me how is it that firefighters run into a burning building when everyone else is running out. Courage is the answer.” – Ladder 49
The film Ladder 49 came out the year I was married and my husband, a volunteer fireman, couldn’t wait to see it. At the time I wasn’t so keen. After all,
we lived the life, why would we want to watch a movie about it? Films to me were to entertain and inform, not rehash the everyday realities we faced.
Of course the fireman in the house won the argument in the end and we did see it and bought the DVD when it came out. It’s sat on our bookshelf with a dozen other dusty DVDs never seen again since the plastic came off. We loved the movie; it was a good portrayal of what comes with the territory and what can come with the territory. But I suspect for us, like with many couples and parents and children who saw this film, it was a little too close to home. Read the rest of this entry »
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