Just as Barbara Huff stepped on the grass and stared at the flag, the wind picked up.
"It's the winds from heaven," she explained. Huff visits the flagpole in front of the Mountain View Fire Rescue Station in Boulder, fairly often. It's where most conversations with her husband, Lynn, happen.
"That's what I feel," she said as she looked up and smiled.
Lynn Huff was always where he needed to be. As a firefighter he wasn't afraid to face danger. His biggest fear, was being unprepared for it.
"That's what the fire service is about, it's people helping other people on the worst days of their lives that's what I have to say about Lynn," Barbara said.
In 2013, about three years after he retired as Longmont Division Fire Chief, Lynn died in a hiking accident in Hawaii.