National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Memorial Dove Release

This photo & its use on this blog, courtesy of Dom Cirri, Maryland's Wings of Love. Photo by Mark Ryder.

Each year, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Fire Administration host an annual memorial event in Emmitsburg, MD. There are many different activities surrounding this very special tribute, including a touching dove release provided by Dom Cirri of Maryland's Wings of Love. http://www.marylandwingsoflove.com/

Maryland's Wings of Love is a premier dove release company, and upstanding member of the White Dove Release Professionals, a.k.a. WDRP.

According to their website ( http://weekend.firehero.org/media/weekend2.html) "Each year, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, the U.S. Fire Administration, and the American Fire Service pause to remember those who gave their lives protecting their communities. Many came from across the United States, from all branches of the fire service, for one important mission: to honor and remember.

These men and women work together with a very special group known as Fire Service Survivors, whose loved ones' names are enshrined on the National Memorial. Offering hope and strength to the newest members of their circle, Fire Service Survivors provide true understanding of the grief of our new families. They have traveled the long and difficult path of healing after their firefighter died in the line of duty."

If you follow the "firehero" link in the text above, there is another beautiful photograph of the dove release, featuring the doves flying over one of the buildings at the site of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial.

There is hardly a greater honor for those of us who provide professional white dove releases than to watch those birds fly in honor of heroes such as these.