It seems as though a very small minority of career and volunteer firefighters has forgotten-or maybe never learned-how important it is for members of the fire service to always act as professionals and with integrity and the link between behavior and public trust, as Editor in Chief Bobby Halton reminds us in "The Heroic Dream" (Editor's Opinion, August 2015). As I was rereading his editorial, I was struck by the following quote from Bertrand Russell: "The performance of public duty is not the whole of what makes a good life; there is also the pursuit of private excellence."
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