2018 National EMS Memorial Service Honoree Robert Vetter

Robert Vetter, 62, died of an apparent heart attack on May 27, 2017, within a few hours of making multiple emergency calls involving stressful and strenuous activities during a very busy shift.

“Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand. It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave. A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”

\— Remember, Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)