COMMUNICATION

摘要

Jim was tired after a long day at the station house. One more hour to go and he would be on his way home. Just then, the alarm rang, and off he went to one of the more horrific fires of his career. Many hours later, as he was showering down before leaving the station house, thoughts of his wife and family crossed his mind. "Oh no," he thought to himself, suddenly remembering his five-year-old's scheduled birthday party. "Will they be angry with me? I missed another one!" Gearing himself up for an angry reception at home, it never occurred to him to share with his wife or children the five harrowing hours he had just experienced on the job. He always tried to protect them from the gore and the horror of it all. After all, home was supposed to be his castle, his sanctuary But was it?