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Fireman's Prayer Coin
No one knows the abject fear of running into a burning building. Unless he has done it.
No one feels the anguish of a mother who sees her baby daughter trapped behind a burning door. Unless she has seen it herself.
No one can explain the senseless loss of life that results from just one careless moment. There is no explanation.
No one knows the agony of a
wife and mother who gets the telephone call late into the night that her
husband and father to her children will never come home again. No one.
The Fireman's Prayer was written under these circumstances.
Tradition has it that this
prayer was a personal, agonized outpouring from a young fireman who had
himself survived the flames, but had been powerless to save three
helpless children from the awful death that engulfed them in smoke and
flame, unable to escape an apartment fire. As he and his companions
fell back in defeat and despair, the children succumbed: the windows
had been fitted by the landlord with steel security bars. The firemen
were unable to free the trapped children.
In shock, anguish, and
spiritual stupor, the fireman, A.W. Smokey Linn, penned this personal
prayer, a plea to the Heavens to somehow make this moment right. And
if not right, understandable. And if not understandable, bearable.
The Fireman's Prayer is a
prayer to unite communities, express love and devotion to family and
friends, and to plead for the value of a soul before God Almighty. It
is a Sacrament.
When I am called to duty, God,
Whenever flames may rage,
Give me the strength to save a life
Whatever be its age.
Help me to embrace a little child
Before it's too late,
Or some older person
From the horror of that fate.
Enable me to be alert
And hear the weakest shout,
And quickly and efficiently
To put the fire out.
I want to fill my calling
And give the best in me,
To guard my neighbor
And protect his property.
And, if according to Your Will,
I have to lose my life,
Please bless with your protecting hand
My children and my wife.
This collector's coin is perfect for your firefighter.
Item Number:
CC-48634
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