FIREFIGHTER HISTORY ,STORIES AND MEMORIES, 156

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY ,STORIES AND MEMORIES, 156


DO YOU REMEMBER

MANY, MANY YEARS AGO
YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER TAKING YOU TO A PARADE DOWNTOWN.

YOU STOOD THERE ON WOODWARD , SQUEEZED AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE AND SAW THE FIREMEN.

SOME WERE DRIVING THEIR BIG SHINING RED FIRE ENGINES, OTHERS WERE MARCHING IN THEIR UNIFORMS OR FIRE CLOTHES AND STILL OTHERS WERE DRESSED AS FIRE CLOWNS AND WERE MAKING ALL THE CHILDREN LAUGH.

YOU WAVED AT THEM HOPING THAT MAYBE ONE WOULD SEE YOU AND WAVE BACK, AT JUST YOU.

THEN ONE DID, HE SMILED , LOOKING RIGHT AT YOU AND WAVED, JUST TO YOU.

YOU WENT HOME AND RUSHED TO YOUR BUDDIES HOUSE, SHOUTING:

"A FIREMAN WAVED AT ME , A FIREMAN WAVED AT ME"

DURING YOUR CAREER ON THE FIRE DEPARTMENT YOU GOT A CHANCE TO BE IN A PARADE.

YOU MAY HAVE BEEN DRIVING A RIG, MARCHING OR ONE OF THE FIRE CLOWNS , ALL TRYING TO MAKE THE CHILDREN LAUGH.

THEY ALL WAVED AND CALLED TO YOU.

THEN ,ONE LITTLE BOY STOOD OUT AS HE WAVED TO YOU.
HE LOOKED FAMILIAR , LIKE YOU KNEW HIM.

HE WAVED TO YOU.

YOU STOPPED ON WOODWARD, "FOR A MOMENT", SMILED AND WAVED BACK, JUST TO HIM.

WHEN YOU GOT HOME YOU TOLD YOUR WIFE ABOUT THAT LITTLE BOY WHO WAS WAVING AT YOU AND THAT HE LOOKED FAMILIAR.

YOU TOLD HER ,YOU STOPPED RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET AND WAVED JUST AT HIM.

THEN HE WAS GONE,

LOST IN THE CROWD.

LATER THAT EVENING, YOU WERE JUST RELAXING AND LOOKING OVER SOME OLD PHOTO ALBUMS AND YOU STOPPED AND HELD YOUR BREATH ,

AS THERE WAS A PICTURE OF THAT LITTLE BOY THAT WAVED TO YOU AT THE PARADE .

IT WAS YOU,

YOU WERE THAT LITTLE BOY THAT GREW UP TO BE A FIREMAN

MAKE THE LITTLE BOY IN ALL OF US SMILE TODAY

FIREFIGHTER

WAYNE