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It's beautiful. Jeff was an outstanding person to work with. His crew was wonderful. Did exactly what…. Great experience. I usually have my landscaper update my beds with mulch. You might say I'd lost another friend at Ground Zero. A quiet retirement near a fateful battlefield We have not spoken since — not in nearly 20 years.

Then, this week, the telephone rang. He'd found me through the internet. It's been too long. But ours is a friendship forged in horror, which makes it different. There is something familiar and forever in a friendship like that. There was much to talk about. Cummins is a man of substance. He faded away into the exciting and obscure life of service, the sort who occupies the dangerous crevices that only other people of action ever see.

The places the rest of us run away from. Sense of obligation He made the elite Rescue 1 with the FDNY, plucking children from burning apartment houses and such. He was a paratrooper with the Air National Guard and volunteered for Iraq in His unit suffered terrible casualties.

Cummins said he felt it was his obligation to his dead brethren at Ground Zero to serve. When he returned home, he became a fire marshal. Then he caught the Ground Zero sickness: cancer in his sinuses and dormant cells in his throat. He took a medical retirement and moved to Gettysburg, Pa. It reminded him of Ireland, he said, where he grew up on a farm.

We talked of the battlefield photographers, who in dragged around the corpse of a Confederate soldier and posed it in positions of horror and glory. We spoke of the photographer at Ground Zero who hid the severed hand of some unknown human being underneath a traffic cone, waiting until the lighting was just right to steal a photograph. That photograph now hangs in some museum. We laughed how the media hasn't changed all that much in years. Timeless touchstones We spoke of the aptly named Capt.

Peter Generous, a soldier in the Michigan contingent, who gave his life at Gettysburg so the great American experiment might survive. We talked about firefighter Steve Siller, Cummins' running mate at Squad 1. Siller's shift was over the morning of September Driving home, Siller got word that the first plane had struck. He turned his truck around, drove back to Squad 1 and gathered up his gear.

He then sped to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, but the authorities had already closed it. Siller gathered his 60 pounds of gear and humped it through the tunnel underneath the New York harbor, only to meet his end in the Twin Towers. We spoke of our children, and grandchildren yet to be. We spoke for nearly four hours and drank whiskey.