Jewells of Thought

How many of you knew that this week starting on Sunday was Police Week?

Maybe I have been watching Fox News too much. Yet they do have the stories that the other liberal outlets don’t want to share, but they still have that big gaffe from 2020 on their conscience as an outlet. Saying that the 2020 election was up and above board more hosts believe otherwise they just don’t want to lose their jobs I suspect. Anyway, one of the topics they do with gusto and and accuracy is cover the men and women of our Law Enforcement.

Yesterday on my local WTHI television station was a throwback story from the past. Due to this Indiana Police Remembrance Week some of our recent heros in uniform were highlighted. Three names and what happened instantly brought back each situation to me starting with 2011 and Office Brent Long all three of these men were stationed in Terre Haute, but they worked throughout the valley. This man’s name has stuck in my head even as a person not living in the big city to know him well. His death though was all over the television in that time as it should be.

The second officer is one that my family wouldn’t have known at all except he was a Sullivan man and this happened in 2018. What I and my Mom learned of this man came from somebody who was in our lives in that time in the capacity of a not a therapist, put a personal care manager who shared with us a very personal and dear friend of hers and her husband. They rode bicycles together and for that reason a part of the ceremony at his funeral displayed his friends and their bikes. I forgot now if they rode his bike or their own, but she was proud to be in that crowd of bicycles respecting their dear friend.

Then the next ironic thing was that my niece who at that time was going to Hymera School said she knew the officer who died. Turns out Officer Rob Pitts did some details at my nieces school and my niece got to this man as well. Knowing that she liked him and said he was nice to her and the students meant everything to us. Unfortunately kids can’t pick their parents and up until then she was wary of ‘cops’. This man helped reshape my nieces mind of police officers and my family is grateful for that time he took guarding those children and spending time with them.

The last officer that was mentioned in the throwback Thursday program during the newscast at lunchtime was Gregory J. Ferency. The most recent death from 2021 from Terre Haute. Honestly I don’t remember the specifics of his death now and it was just yesterday that I watched this special. He was an officer and he was shot while in the line of duty and most especially like all of our fallen officers he left a mourning family and friends. Fortunately I live in a state where Law and Order still remains unlike California and New York, although Indianapolis does have some bad DA’s in place, so I have heard.

Even in New York they had a Police Week they need our support more than ever. We have never seen such a war on our police like we have seen in the last few years due to Soros funded DA’s changing bond rules and changing misdemeanors and felony requirements. Even illegal aliens can rush into our country beat up our policemen and get out not once but twice and are not held to our law and order statutes that have been in place for years.

In 1962 President John Kennedy signed Public Law 87-726. It states May 15th as a Peace Officers Memorial Day. Then in 1994 President Bill Clinton also added another Public Law 103-322 this is to instruct that during that day the United States flag should be flown at half mast on that day May 15th. For more on this Indiana Police Remembrance Week look here inlem.org/we-remember/police-week/