Here's this morning's view where you can see about 17 green-red wreaths of our line of duty death brothers and sisters, thanks to the Fallen Heroes Wreath Program of Arizona, founder Erin Morgan, volunteers and families assembling them and helping us bring them here. This year their zone 10+b Greenwood Memory Lawn FireFighters leader volunteer is Maria Hechanova Smith married to our own Dustin Smith and assistant Mary, both of their guys work at Firehouse 7. This year we were able to construct smaller wreaths for our three brothers who are on the urn niche columbarium at the base of the Bell Tower; Kerry Davis, Ricky Telles and Peoria's Dave Rehnke. We have two wreaths on Jack Sullivan's grave as we never forget Mike Ambrose Shea who died on that incident with him but is buried in his hometown of Holyoke Massachusetts. And we placed a wreath on the bell tower ledge for our own alarm room headquarters Megan Stiffler Lange, which today we deliver to the alarm room. You will also see Maria and Mary and Lisa after helping us place the wreath on Indianapolis FD line of duty Jerry Poole who is buried here in his hometown, Plus our Engine 1 US Marine killed in action in WWII, Okinawa 1945, Hoseman Claude 'Stubby' Nelson. We placed one for good measure in our Northwest annex on the Union tall cross there. Finally, thank you, for the photograph of brother Dale Lockett's in windber Pennsylvania, to police LODD widow Michelle Pawlowski, the founder of the first program in Pennsylvania, who has agreed to do this for Dale every year. It was actually placed and photographed for us by Tina Sepp, a PA State Trooper LODD widow. Unity. Never ever forgotten.
Back here, same was done at our other LODD cemeteries, for Hugh Henley (23s first due), Randy Potts, Brandi Grimes Schamadan and Dave Mathis, and thanks to Alec Johnstone for placing Dave Franks' in Prescott.
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