Walter’s Creed: A Memoir of Survival, Service, and the Scars We Carry I’ve held hearts that stopped beating. Whispered prayers over dying children. Watched the light fade from eyes I was too late to save. This is not a hero’s story. It’s a survivor’s. Jon Mazurek has spent his life in the trenches of emergency medicine—as a paramedic on the streets and a respiratory therapist. In Walter’s Creed , he rips the bandages off the moments most people never see and first responders never forget: the suicides, the overdoses, the children you can’t save, and the silence that follows a final breath. Each chapter is a scar. A memory. A confession. Guided only by the words that kept him from falling apart— Patience, Persistence, Perseverance —Jon writes with a bleeding heart and a soul worn thin. He explores what it means to break over and over again and still get up. To carry death in your hands and somehow find love, purpose, and meaning anyway. This book is for the ones who stay awake at night. For the healers who are hurting. For anyone who’s ever wondered if they’re the only one barely holding it together. Walter’s Creed is not just a memoir. It’s a scream from the inside. A love letter to the broken. And proof that even in the darkest moments, we keep breathing.