National EMS Memorial Service Honoree

	Brian Lewis Harden University of Kentucy Air Med Service Lexington, Kentucky

"Let us Smile... let us laugh...let us cry, as we remember them," said the chaplain.

"He was just a heck of a guy. It's awful easy to talk good about people when something bad happens to them. But I think you could call everybody who's ever talked to Brian and you wouldn't hear a bad thing about him." Carlos Coyle, a paramedic, said of his colleague, Brian Harden, "he was a very upbeat person who liked to golf, fish, and hunt. Never in a bad mood, always, laughing, smiling," Coyle said.

Brian Harden, age 31, was killed on June 14, 1999, along with three other crew members in a helicopter crash, on a tree-covered, yet rocky, mountainside. After a quiet day, the four crew members were heading for home when their helicopter ambulance slammed into a Breathitt County hillside in dense fog.

Harden was an on-call paramedic for UK since 1998. He also was a flight paramedic for St. Joseph's Hospital Care Flight since 1994, and was a paramedic supervisor for Georgetown-Scott County EMS since 1992. From 1990-92, Harden was a paramedic for Madison County EMS.

Brian Harden is survived by his wife, Patty, and three daughters, Kennedy, Bailey, and Brianna.

Honored 2000