All the Secrets you ever wanted to know about Firefighting. This particular cartoon illustrates something familiar to me as a shrink who specializes in treating firefighters. It is also a very intense image and another powerful punch from Paul Combs. The truth tends to hit us hard in the fire service. In this case, it hits unfairly and tragically. As Firefighters we see Ghosts.

As ISIS takes over the city of Palmyra, a beautiful, ancient stop along the trade route between east and west whose colonnades and architecture survived thousands of years in the desert but now face probable destruction, I wanted to take a moment to remember. How much things have changed there, here, and all around us since then. Last year when I wrote about being groped.

Rest in Peace Seargent Goodding of Seaside Oregon Police Department. You will live on in all of us. Today we laid to rest a hero. This hero did not wear turnouts. But none the less, he was an amazing public servant. Gone, but never forgotten.