Biden is for firefighters...but what about Obama? Obama makes some questionable decisions regarding some key programs that fund fire departments and the families of fallen firefighters across the country. What's going on here?   Joe Biden for Firefighters Vice President Joe Biden takes an active stance on supporting firefighters and their families. Read more in the articles below: Vice President: 'You Can Count On Us' Biden Credits Stimulus for Bush Funded Station Vice President Biden's Remarks to the IAFF Biden Says Administration Backs Firefighters It's Time to Take Action for Fire Service Grants   With a new president and the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program due to expire by 2010. It's time to find out what you can do personally to make sure that fire departments get the government support they deserve. Click the title above to learn more. Click the titles below to get updates on the process. Related: SC Dept. Turns Down Grant               Grant Eases MA Recruiting Effort               Fire Prevention Grants Application Period to Open Gaining access to our Message Board just got easier!!!   If you want to come chat with us, our board offers a great place to vent, ask for prayers/advice, or even just chit-chat about your everyday life, goals, and accomplishments. We're a great group of women (23 official members now!) with a lot of different ranges of experience and we'd love to get to know you!   To sign-up for the message board, follow this link: http://iloveaff.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=register   To learn more about the "founders" of this site and the message board, click the "Our Family" link in the navigation.     ALL ABOUT...   Firefighting Quotes & Poems St. Florian, patron saint of firefighters. History of the Maltese Cross

	I AM Taken from "The Fireman's Wife" by Susan Farren   I am thank ful. This has not always been an easy walk for me.   I am disappointed. We have missed family gatherings, weddings, dinner engagements, birthday parties, and holidays because of shift schedules and overtime.   I am patient. There have been dinners spent at the firehouse waiting for Daddy to return from a call while the kids get cranky and the food gets cold.   I am nervous. I awake at 3:00 A.M. hearing creaks in the house and don't have the comfort of my husband beside me.   I am tired. The house is full of sick kids and there is no relief in site because Daddy is on a seventy-two-hour shift.   I am jealous. Jealous of all the women whose husbands came home at 5:00 P.M. to have dinner and hold them at the end of their day.   I am worried. I worry that he may not come home one day. This I try to tuck away.   I am content. We have decided to give up my career so I can stay home and raise our children. We no longer have an abundance of money or things. It is the greatest freedom I have ever known.   I am incompetent.There was a time when I considered myself moderately intelligent. I now struggle to remember where I left my car keys, the diaper bag, and, occasionally, the baby.   I am waiting. Knowing the phone may one day ring for me.   I am doubting. Doubting that God hears all my prayers. Doubting I am the kind of wife and mother He needs me to be.   I am trusting. Trusting that my husband will come home again.   I am confident, I am embarrassed, I am lonely, I am surprised, I am overworked, I am underpaid.   I am...The Fireman's Wife. Want to read more from "The Fireman's Wife"? Click here.