August 30, 2010

Never Forget- A Trip to Arlington ^{Comments Off}

by Wendy • 2010: Memory Making, featured, Headline, My Life As It Happens

Several months ago, my organization was invited to participate in the Texas Rangers firefighter appreciation night.  They wanted to honor an organization that worked with the families of fallen firefighters and a local Arlington firefighter had given them our name.  When I got the email from their rep. I almost deleted it thinking it was spam.  When I opened it and actually read it, I still thought it was too good to be true.  I quickly emailed the rep to see if I read the request correctly and he replied within minutes.  His email was not spam and they really did want to recognize our organization and the families of fallen firefighters.

I was pretty excited about going to my first baseball game in a LONG, LONG time.  My first baseball game was the Oakland A’s back in junior high and then when I worked as a medic in the Astrodome, I got to see a few Astro’s games.  Two families that I had worked with, the Staley’s and the Bale’s, both wanted to attend.  And the executive director of the Federation of Fire Chaplains, Ed Stauffer and his family came along.

Not only were they going to be honoring us at the game but we were going to be able to go out on the field for pictures, meet Nolan Ryan, and then they would make a donation to our organization.  We also got to sit in a suite, which was, well, sweet!  I actually didn’t get that much time in the suite because we met up with some good friends of ours who are also fire chaplains.  We had a great time and the experience was unforgettable!  I hope they choose for us to come back next year!