他在修路灯时因公殉职。

He died on the job while repairing a streetlamp.

去年一年有超过800名警察因公殉职。

More than 800 officers were killed in the line of duty last year.

当月9日，我再次回到马萨诸塞州的伍斯特，参加为六名因公殉职的消防队员举办的葬礼。 1998年8月那些不开心的日子，我就是选择在这里度过的。

On the ninth, I went back to Worcester, Massachusetts, the city that had welcomed me in the dark days of August 1998, for the funeral of six firefighters who had been killed in action.