Article October 29, 2001 Issue

Coming to know firefighters and their families

In the line of duty ...

By Barbara Weigt

SUDDENLY, SMALL BOYS in the United States are less concerned with tossing a ball like Michael Jordan or Kurt Warner than with aspiring to hurl themselves into burning buildings and haul people to safety.

Police officers and EMS teams have been serving heroically in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, but the imaginations of millions of young Americans have been fired by images of heroes in baggy gear and outsize helmets, risking their lives in some of the most daring rescue operations the nation has ever known.

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Barbara Weigt has spent 12 years counseling the widows of firefighters killed in the line of duty and helping their families through their bereavement.

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