"Always ready" or "semper paratus" is the motto of most fire departments.
"To serve and to honor" is the motto of most firefighter honor guards.
8:46 Eastern Time, the time I've been posting updates here, is the time the first plane struck the World Trade Center.
The thin red line represents all firefighters collectively, and like the Last Alarm, a red line crossing a black band means we're mourning the loss of a brother or sister.
"See you at the Big One" is said by firefighters from different companies or agencies to bid each other farewell.
These stories show how the events of September 11, 2001 personally impacted even a family from the middle of nowhere. This series brings together Valerie Finnigan (Tiger on the Storm, Korean War, Untold Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan) with frequent collaborator Richard O'Hara (Futurians Return, Second Dawn) and features guest artist Paty Cockrum, best known for her work on various X-Men titles from the first Nightcrawler solo series to X-Men: Die by the Sword and much more. Valerie will donate revenue from this miniseries to the Fraternal Order of Leatherheads Society, a non-profit dedicated to providing training opportunities for firefighters and to assisting their families.
Updates will be daily from now until mid-September, barring a couple of likely breaks for the Boise Comic Arts Festival August 25-26 and Salt Lake Comic Con September 6-8.
Comments are welcome, but as two of the three creators on this project are retired firefighters, we advise against posting 9-11 conspiracy theories. As two of the three creators are retired firefighters, they have years of experience rebutting conspiracy theories with fire science and common sense, and its gotten to the point that they find these conspiracy theories more than a little annoying, so it's best not to even go there.
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