Post by Anonymous on Sept 11, 2017 6:47:33 GMT -8
Mr. Willink,
I am a NYPD officer, avid listener of the podcast and currently waiting to be promoted to sergeant so I have also read Extreme Ownership to begin to prepare to lead people.
Today is a day that invokes so many powerful emotions for people all over the country and even the world. However, while I fully respect all those emotions for all those people, there are a few groups that can claim another degree of intensity and emotion when it comes to September 11th. Those groups are of course the thousands of service men and women who were already serving and also those thousands that immediately heeded the call that day and raced to the recruiting offices all over the country to get involved the best way they knew how.
The other group of people is undoubtedly the first responders of the city of New York. The firefighters, the police officers, and the emergency medical personnel. Some of which paid the ultimate price that day and some still today who are perishing due to the environmental effects of the cleanup and beyond.
On this day we remember those who paid that price and in turn all of those servicemen and women who paid that price subsequently because it was the event that set the United States on the path to the global war on terrorism.
And because I remember it has brought me back more than once to your closing of podcast number 84 18 Platoon. That is one of the most powerful articulations of the emotion we all feel for the fallen and the "glorious dead". The 343. The port authority and Emergency Service Unit personnel who is basically the NYPD version of SWAT. They gave us that gift that you mention.
This the safest big city in the world since that day. It's because there are those with pure hearts who suit and strap up everyday and get after it in those streets.
And I just want to thank you for your words at the end of that podcast because they make me remember why I try and get after it everyday in those same streets. And to all those who serve in any capacity all over our country thank you for what you do. And for those that have retired I thank you for what you've done. And to those who have yet to answer the same call we thank you for the sacrifices you have yet to make.
Thank you.
I am a NYPD officer, avid listener of the podcast and currently waiting to be promoted to sergeant so I have also read Extreme Ownership to begin to prepare to lead people.
Today is a day that invokes so many powerful emotions for people all over the country and even the world. However, while I fully respect all those emotions for all those people, there are a few groups that can claim another degree of intensity and emotion when it comes to September 11th. Those groups are of course the thousands of service men and women who were already serving and also those thousands that immediately heeded the call that day and raced to the recruiting offices all over the country to get involved the best way they knew how.
The other group of people is undoubtedly the first responders of the city of New York. The firefighters, the police officers, and the emergency medical personnel. Some of which paid the ultimate price that day and some still today who are perishing due to the environmental effects of the cleanup and beyond.
On this day we remember those who paid that price and in turn all of those servicemen and women who paid that price subsequently because it was the event that set the United States on the path to the global war on terrorism.
And because I remember it has brought me back more than once to your closing of podcast number 84 18 Platoon. That is one of the most powerful articulations of the emotion we all feel for the fallen and the "glorious dead". The 343. The port authority and Emergency Service Unit personnel who is basically the NYPD version of SWAT. They gave us that gift that you mention.
This the safest big city in the world since that day. It's because there are those with pure hearts who suit and strap up everyday and get after it in those streets.
And I just want to thank you for your words at the end of that podcast because they make me remember why I try and get after it everyday in those same streets. And to all those who serve in any capacity all over our country thank you for what you do. And for those that have retired I thank you for what you've done. And to those who have yet to answer the same call we thank you for the sacrifices you have yet to make.
Thank you.
