Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. – John N. Mitchell

LODD’s:

Three for three today for LODD’s due to cardiac related issues. Please take care of yourselves and each other!

F2010-27

Jan 31, 2009

Driver/Operator suffers fatal heart attack while responding to structure fire – North Carolina.

F2009-15

Jan 31, 2008

Captain suffers sudden cardiac death just after physical exercise and one day after fire training – Maryland.

F2002-33

Jan 31, 2002

Fire fighter dies during night at fire station – North Carolina.

History by Historyplace.com:

January 31, 1943 – German troops surrendered at Stalingrad, marking the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies in World War II. During the Battle of Stalingrad, 160,000 Germans were killed and 90,000 taken prisoner, including the commander, Friedrich von Paulus, the first German field marshal ever to surrender. The captured Germans were forced to march to Siberia, with few ever returning to Germany.

January 31, 1945 – Eddie Slovik, a 24-year-old U.S. Army private, was executed by a firing squad after being sentenced to death for desertion, the first such occurrence in the U.S. Army since the Civil War.