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05/13/2021 08:31 AM EDT
Welcome, China Watchers. This week’s guest host is Retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis, who served as NATO’s 16th Supreme Allied Commander and 12th dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He s now an operating executive at The Carlyle Group, where he focuses on geopolitical risk and strategy. He spent about half his operational career in the Pacific and holds a PhD in international law with a focus on the law of the sea. He is a NYT bestselling author who has published 10 books and is chief international security and diplomacy analyst for NBC news. Over to you,
It s an alloy of metals that was used to make fire hose couplings and nozzles.
Now it s going to be used to keep alive the memory of firefighters who have died as a result of their work.
Six brass couplings from decades-old firehoses are being melted down and used in a statue that s a national tribute to firefighters who have fallen in the line of duty.
Kamloops Fire Chief Neill Moroz said Monday the old couplings weigh about seven kilograms each. They aren t used any more, in part because they are so heavy.
Now they ll be used to build the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Memorial that s being unveiled in Ottawa in September 2012.