Graduation Honors Fallen Recruit

May 13, 2007 Maryland - At an emotional graduation filled with bagpipes, tear-filled eyes and whooping cheers, Baltimore's firefighters dedicated their academy's auditorium yesterday evening to the first recruit to die during a live fire training exercise in the history of the department. The city's still-scarred force cheerfully welcomed 55 of its newest members into its ranks, but the 90-minute ceremony never turned its attention far from the cadet lost along the way. "You have already been touched ...