He’d like it. In two acts we are treated to the span of Alexander Hamilton’s heroic life replete with ambition, jealousy, courage, infidelity and love. Hamilton was mixed-race, illegitimate and born to a mother married at the time to another. …

Has the IAFF forgotten? Firefighter families and others gathered at Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf course to protest his decision to take Saudi money as part of the LIV golf franchise.

Yes to a joyride On the evening of June 22, 2022, Marine 1 Bravo, an FDNY boat, stationed on the Hudson River, castoff with a retired FDNY captain, his visiting Belgian firefighter friend and their wives. It was an unauthorized voyage with the vessel being crewed by a single on-duty…

Pier-side fire destroys the Bonhomme Richard 3-star admiral sanctioned Ship and crew woefully unprepared San Diego Fire packs up and goes home The missed opportunity In July 2020, the Bonhomme Richard, a U.S. …

Conformity I recently wrote about the Stricker fire in Baltimore where three firefighters were killed; it elicited these comments from fellow IAFF members: “Is there a purpose for this article except for your doubt of O’Connor’s statement?” -LJ “The problem is Eric can only find bad or possibly bad things…

Three firefighters killed in January Collapse in Baltimore Shortly after the fatal abandoned rowhouse fire, Baltimore Councilwoman Danielle McCray introduced legislation which would: “bar city firefighters from entering vacant buildings if 25% or more of the structure has been consumed by fire.” “Additionally, firefighters could only enter a vacant building…

Hitler would be proud. Until recently, the nearly universal reaction to the late John McCain was that he was a revered American who sacrificed much while serving in the Vietnam War and who went on to serve with distinction in public life. McCain was both a Republican and a conservative…

The Lincoln Memorial at 100 When taking students to the Lincoln Memorial I ask them to “Tell me anything you know about Lincoln.” In among the comments about his towering height and beard, someone will offer that he freed the slaves or was an abolitionist or civil rights leader. The…

Pry that gun from your cold dead hands. It’s a guerrilla-style war; the killers are often young and fed on a diet of hateful conspiracies through the internet. Call them child soldiers; think of the Hitler youth or some African “republic” where kids are purposefully recruited to murder. But the…