Boatman,
I don't know where they got the mold for you guys...but let me say...I don't care where a fireman works...how long he/she's been one, but each and every one of you is a hero in my book. The self sacrifice that was displayed on 9/11 was unbelievable...both FDNY and NYPD.
I don't know you boatman, I live a thousand miles away from ya, but if I or one of my family needed help, needed to be rescued from an inferno or whatever, I have no doubt you and those like you would be there to help, maybe even place your own life in jeopardy to do so...That kind of valor is displayed on the above link. To see the faces of those men is sobering, to think they died to save others...without so much as a thought for their own safety....unbelievable.
Thanks Boatman.