a touching story

Call me sentimental, but reading this after being on a firefighting and sea survival course last week touched me deeply: -

9/11 firefighters

In the days immediately following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, a 77-year-old man from Teaneck, New Jersey, tried repeatedly to cross the George Washington Bridge. He was turned away. But he tried again, and again, until finally police and military personnel waved him through, and soon enough, he was among those thousands who were putting their lives at risk in what proved to be a vain attempt to find and rescue survivors in the smoldering ruins of the Twin Towers

I feel proud to share the same drive to do the right thing as these guys, and I guess it goes someway to explain why so many firefighters are on our Lifeboat Crew.
(or perhaps its because we like beer.....)