we got out onto the street, went through our training and we lost our first family member jeff fontana. it rocked us to the core like i could not tell you. a lot of us reconsidered what we were doing for a living. we realized this was not a game. this is real life. we changed the way we lived that day forever. we became even closer together. class 3 was stitched together closer than ever. here we are 14 years later. we lost another family member. here we are again, class 3, welding ourselves together. mike paid the ultimate sacrifice doing exactly what he loved, what he trained for since day one in the academy. he died doing exactly what he loved to do. there's no many of us that can say that or will be able to say that in this world. when we lose somebody suddenly like this we often ask ourselves -- we beat up on ourselves ton honest with you. why didn't i tell them i loved them, appreciated them? all of the things we want today say but we'll never be able to say. we didn't get to do that with mike based on the way that he was taken from us, but we here surviving him. i think one of t