Police-Fire Post 456 News

By Greg Corrales

“To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”

 - Euripides, Heracles, 422 BC

By Greg Corrales

"All I asked for was to be given a warrior's death"

Staff Sergeant Clay Treska, who after twelve years in the Marine Corps was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and given five months to live. He battled the disease and is now an Ironman triathlete.

“In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.”
- Croesus

“And how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.”
Horatius, Lord Macaulay

On the evening of December 14, 2010 members of the Police-Fire Post visited patients at Ft. Miley. Post Commander Peter Mellett, along with Mario Gonzalez, Jeremiah Morgan, Paul Wallace, Bill Wakefield, and John Scully participated in our annual visit to the veterans that are spending the holidays in the hospital. We gave gifts, Christmas cards (with a double sawbuck inside), and profuse thanks for their service.

By Greg Corrales

“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
- J.H. Boetcher

By Greg Corrales

By Greg Corrales

“He which hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart. We would not die in that man’s company.”
- William Shakespeare, “Henry V”