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    The Helper

    Oct 15, 2021 6 minutes
    —G.R. Schiavino and Western Edge Photography

    “I have to go,” Donnie Woodmansee said, calmly, but also abrubtly, about 20 minutes into a conversation.

    Woodmansee, 45, is a firefighter at Denver, Colorado’s South Metro station. In the background, noise over a loudspeaker indicates that the unit has been called to respond to an emergency. Woodmansee, indeed, has to go.

    A career firefighter for 21 years, Woodmansee was turned onto the pursuit when he served in Bosnia in 1999 and 2000 with the National Guard, in the wake of the most violent war Europe had experienced since the end of World War II. There, a supervisor planted the seed that he’d be a good fit. His 16-year career with the Guard would also place Woodmansee in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention performing humanitarian aid response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and answering the countless other calls of duty. But first, he was a Marine.

    “I joined the Marines right out of high school. I got out of the Marines, and I joined the Reserves. I spent the next 16 years there. The National

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