RFB - Remember Fallen Brothers - Today is a day of remembrance, sacred in the long history of our proud profession. To remember those brothers who, despite nearly insurmountable odds, got off their rigs and went in and up so that frightened, injured, and panicked civilians might live.

However, it is not only sacred as a day to remember those lost. It is sacred as a day to remember those who survived. Those who persevered. Those who carried on. It was a day that every core tenet of true firefighters was on display for the world to witness as they carried out one of the greatest firefighting and rescue operations that our profession has ever seen. Our world - our American way of life - changed irreversibly on September 11th, 2001, and we owe it to every hero of that day, living and gone, to never forget.