02/??/1908 Chief Edward
F. Croker, FDNY, speaking upon the death of a deputy chief and four firefighters
"Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face
that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been
accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were
not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went
there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard
themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires."
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