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This was read at our fallen officer memorial dedication yesterday. It hit home of me and hopefully a lot of others. Some see bad in the blue usually those are the ones that are the wrong side of the thin blue line. Beneath the Badge In every city or this country beneath the waving flag There is a special Group committed to their call And they stand for Truth and Justice In a nation under God No matter what the cost, they will uphold the law. To assure us of our safety they place their lives on the line Lend a hand to those in need When help is hard to find Beneath the badge there beats a heart So full of courage, a light in the dark beneath the badge there is only one aim To serve the people Knowing that it starts, Beneath the badge. When the day is finally over, and they find themselves at home They may lay down their badge, but the call is carved in stone. And though at times it gets lonely, and the stakes seem so high Still they will proudly serve, though their names may be unknown. There are some who've found the calling cost them everything they had A wife who gave a husband, or a child who gave a dad. Beneath the badge there beats a heart So full of courage, a light in the dark Beneath the badge there is only one aim To serve the people Knowing that it starts Beneath the badge Beneath the badge (From the CD "Concerns of Police Survivors" Brian White and Joe Beck

Ambulance Driver
Body: Just an ambulance driver......
Body: just an ambulance driver.......
Body: standing in chest deep water,freezing rain falling and stinging as it hits the
exposed parts of my body. Holding her head above water to keep her from drowning until rescue could get there to cut her free---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

comforting a 89 year old woman who just watch me and my partner cover the face of her husband of 64 years as he lay dead in their bathroom floor---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

on scene at an mva with mom trapped upside down in her car and her dead sons body laying on top of her without a second thought for my own safety i crawl into the wreckage to take C-spine control and calm the frantic lady---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

called away from my just prepared meal to respond to the middle of B.F.E to a house with no numbers,no porch light on,nobody waiting to signal us in and they bitch because we took too long only to find out the patient left P.O.V ten minutes ago...so we smile and walk away from the verbal lashing only because we are
JUST AMBULANCE DRIVERS

standing in the middle of the street at midnight on the wrong side of town trying to patch the holes and stop the bleeding of a 19 year old shooting victim with the occasional bullet wizzing past our heads we never break stride because this kids life is in our hands---
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULNCE DRIVER

doing chest compressions on a 16 year old girl who decided this life was more than she could take.Her family screaming at us to help as though we are the ones who did this to her.Her lifeless body flailing about as the tube goes in and IV's being started, my arms and back burning from the pain of 30 minutes of CPR never once giving up, hoping she would make it through and over come whatever lead her to this bad decision----
BUT I'M JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

death is all around me and still i go home to live my life
i get kicked,hit,spit on, bled on, puked on...
i look into the eyes of a lifeless child at 7am and by 8 am i'm holding my child a little tighter and they know nothing about what happened.
i have hundreds of hours of classroom time
years of in the field experience
i have challenged death and won
i've helped the helpless
i've neglected my family for yours
i find comfort in complete chaos
i eat cold meals if i eat at all
i work with no sleep for days at a time
i miss birthdays,holidays and school functions
i put myself in harms way for a total stranger on a daily basis

ALL BECAUSE I AM JUST AN AMBULANCE DRIVER

I AM AN AMBULANCE DRIVER!!! I DRIVE 90 MPH THROUGH CONJESTED TRAFFIC FULL OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO YEILD RIGHT OF WAY WHILE MY PARTNER STANDS UNRESTRAINED IN THE BACK OF THIS SCREAMING LAND MISSLE SAVING YOUR LOVED ONES LIFE!! NEVER ONCE DOES HE QUESTION MY DRIVING HE KNOWS THAT AT THE END OF THIS SHIFT HE WILL GO HOME TO HIS FAMILY SAFELY BECAUSE I AM AN AMBULANCE DRIVER....

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