Reply #10: I don't have to imagine that

[nadinbrzezinski]

a medic, friend of mine and fellow training officer, died in a call, He was run over, in the previous shift to mine

The first thing we learned when going on duty was that he passed at the trauma bay.

It felt like a kick in the gut.

We pulled ourselves together and worked our shift, and responded to calls

The head of the local Red Cross chapter (mexican Red Cross) he died at home from a heart attack. He left barely an hour before, he was worked on by doctors and medics but he was dead... while I was on shift

He was loved by all... and probably the best man many of us knew.

Again, it was a mule kick.... to the gut

We responded to calls. And nobody abandoned his or her post.

Both were buried, with full MILITARY honors, and flags were folded, the whole nine yards. We kept responding

Hell, I went from the cemetery when the President was laid to rest straight to a call wearing a full dress uniform

So no... I don't give them a pass.