Lyric discussion by ncc74656m 

Not only is this song a commemoration of sacrifices of the brave FDNY - the department who sacrificed more than any first responders on September 11th, 2001, but I feel that it is also a prayer to the lost 343 that we may be as strong without them as they were for us.

As someone said after that terrible, heroic day: "When everyone else was coming down, they were going up."

God bless the 343, and all their brothers and sisters who lost so much with them.

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