Today, I am giving you a break from reading all of your tedious e-mails.  Here is what I would like you to do.  For the next 30 seconds, close your eyes and focus on your surroundings…Now let me ask you a few questions: 

1-    Are you at work?  I will assume most of you are.

2-    Did you feel safe?  Were you in danger for any given amount of time during the 30 seconds your eyes were closed? (Aside from the danger of your boss walking up and finding you that way). 

3-    Could you feel anything?   

When most of us go to work each day, the greatest danger we face is simply getting to and from work.  We can sit down in our offices, at our desks and deal with whatever challenges will face us for that day.  However, for thousands of men and women there are no desks, there are no walls.  The only safety net they have is us.  Closing their eyes for 30 seconds could mean a matter of life and death.  If they closed their eyes, what do you think they would feel?  They would feel a breeze.  A breeze sometimes so strong, their hats would fly away.  A breeze from 80,000 pounds going by them at sixty miles per hour.  The breeze they felt today could have been from us.  One of us that could not do one simple act to keep them safe. 

Who are these people and why don’t they have walls where they work?  They are the thousands of law enforcement officers, medics, firefighters and tow truck operators whose offices are on the highways that we travel everyday.  They are the men and women that we asked to serve and protect us.  Does that mean we should not protect them?  One simple act…move over.  Give them a wall at work.  Give them the space that they deserve so they can stop our intoxicated drivers, so they can save our children from a burning car, so they can bandage our injured friends and so they can help us with our stranded vehicles.  We asked them to be there.  They work to protect us, they should not have to die because of us.  Please, move over, slow down and let them work.