How Will History Remember You: A Captain’s Challenge to the Fire Service

The grief support group had a curriculum, an instructor, and a chapter one. He lasted about ten minutes before standing up and telling the room he'd be at Wingstop, first round on him, if anyone wanted to come talk. The instructor asked him to leave. He was already going. Captain Thomas Varady of South Montgomery County Fire Department makes the case for ditching formal programs in favor of real human connection, challenges fire chiefs across Montgomery County to let him come speak to their rookie classes, and shares the motto he lives by: how will history remember you.