Firefighter's prayer

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CC9922" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="260d2962dakdei.gif"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Welcome to AVesselofhonor.com</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >     |    </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Welcome to AVesselofhonor.com"><U> home</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="butt prints in the sand"><U>butt prints in the sand</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id117.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="greatest poem ever"><U>greatest poem ever</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to Start Praying"><U>How to Start Praying</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Memories"><U>Memories</U></A>   |   <B>Firefighter's prayer </B>   |   <A HREF="id116.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Celtic Prayers and Blessings "><U>Celtic Prayers and Blessings </U></A>   |   <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prayers and Poems"><U>Prayers and Poems</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Loneliness"><U>Loneliness</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Forgiveness"><U>Forgiveness</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="When tomorrow starts without me"><U>When tomorrow starts without me</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poems to Heal"><U>Poems to Heal</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poems of Loss"><U>Poems of Loss</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="God said..."><U>God said...</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Final Flight"><U>My Final Flight</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Christmas in heaven"><U>Christmas in heaven</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id66.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mothers"><U>Mothers</U></A></div> <div> Firefighter's prayer </div> <div> <I>-author unknown</I> </div> <div> When I am called to duty, God, Wherever flames may rage, </div> <div> Give me the strength to save a life, Whatever be it's age. </div> <div> Help me embrace a little child before it is too late, </div> <div> Or save an older person from the horror of that fate. </div> <div> Enable me to be alert and hear the weakest shout, </div> <div> And quickly and efficiently put the fire out. </div> <div> I want to fill my calling, to give the best in me, </div> <div> To guard my friends and neighbors and protect his property. </div> <div> And if according to my fate I am to lose my life, </div> <div> Please bless with your protecting hand my children and my wife.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> *</div> </td> </tr></table></body>