National Police Week 2010

This week marks a national week long remembrance of police officers killed in the line of duty; a very unfortunate coincidence in timing of what happened a week ago.  Last year I posted a blog on National Police week & it gave me chills reading it again.  It all is still so true & unfortunately something, that once again, I felt just last week.

National Police Week honors fallen heros.  While locally you will see officers standing guard at memorials & wearing the black band around their badges; in Washington, D.C. there is a week-long schedule of events where thousands of officers from all over the country attend.  The names of fallen officers from the past year are added to a memorial, there are seminars, vigils and a memorial service.

To be in D.C. & see such events must be quite the sight.  For many, I know this week doesn't impact them; but for police, it's a week they honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.  Their fallen brothers & sisters.  Since Blue Line Bulldogs gets its name from the police world, I think it's very appropriate to spread the word of National Police Week.

To the fallen, you will not be forgotten.  To the Thin Blue Line, thank you for your continued service.

National Police Week

You may have looked at the home page & the bullies’ pages & wondered why I'm honoring National Police Week. There is only one reason. My husband is a police officer. In fact, next week marks his 11 year anniversary as being a sworn police officer. Crazy how fast time flies.

One year, he stood guard at the local Police Memorial and it was quite moving. A few years later, one of his former Sergeants was killed while on duty. My husband was working that night & when he called to tell me he was ok & that a cop had been shot, all I could think about was the wife/family that wasn't getting this call, but instead getting the "other" call. I tried to put myself in her shoes & it was at this point I realized no matter how much I tried, I could only begin to imagine how much her life changed in a matter of a phone call. This really hit me that what happened to this officer could happen to any one of them...at any time.

I'm choosing to remember National Police Week, not only for those officers who were killed in the line of duty, but also for their families & co-workers; as their deaths were never in vain and impact many.

Thank you!