HuntingNut
HuntingNut
   Login or Register
HomeCommunity ForumsPhoto AlbumsRegister
     
 

User Info

Welcome Anonymous


Membership:
Latest: RichardZ
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 13126

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 369
BOT: 1
Total: 370
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Forums
02: Home
03: Home
04: Forums
05: Photo Albums
06: Home
07: Forums
08: Forums
09: Forums
10: Your Account
11: Forums
12: Forums
13: Forums
14: Home
15: Forums
16: Forums
17: Forums
18: Forums
19: Forums
20: Forums
21: Forums
22: Forums
23: Forums
24: Photo Albums
25: Forums
26: Forums
27: Forums
28: Forums
29: Forums
30: Forums
31: Forums
32: Forums
33: Forums
34: Forums
35: Forums
36: Forums
37: Forums
38: Your Account
39: Photo Albums
40: Photo Albums
41: Home
42: Forums
43: Home
44: Photo Albums
45: Forums
46: Your Account
47: Your Account
48: Home
49: Forums
50: Home
51: Forums
52: Forums
53: Your Account
54: Forums
55: News
56: Forums
57: Forums
58: Forums
59: Forums
60: Forums
61: Forums
62: Forums
63: Forums
64: Forums
65: Photo Albums
66: Forums
67: Forums
68: Home
69: Your Account
70: Forums
71: Forums
72: Forums
73: Your Account
74: Forums
75: Forums
76: Forums
77: Forums
78: Forums
79: Your Account
80: Your Account
81: Forums
82: Forums
83: Forums
84: Forums
85: Forums
86: Your Account
87: Forums
88: Forums
89: Forums
90: Forums
91: Forums
92: Forums
93: Forums
94: Statistics
95: Your Account
96: Home
97: Forums
98: Photo Albums
99: Forums
100: Forums
101: Home
102: Your Account
103: Forums
104: Forums
105: Home
106: Forums
107: Your Account
108: Forums
109: Forums
110: Photo Albums
111: Photo Albums
112: Forums
113: Forums
114: Your Account
115: Photo Albums
116: Home
117: Home
118: Forums
119: Forums
120: Your Account
121: Forums
122: Photo Albums
123: Home
124: Forums
125: Forums
126: Forums
127: Forums
128: Forums
129: Forums
130: Home
131: Home
132: Your Account
133: Forums
134: Your Account
135: Home
136: Forums
137: Forums
138: Forums
139: Forums
140: Forums
141: Home
142: Forums
143: Photo Albums
144: Forums
145: Forums
146: Forums
147: Forums
148: Forums
149: Forums
150: Forums
151: Forums
152: Forums
153: Your Account
154: Forums
155: Forums
156: Forums
157: Forums
158: Forums
159: Forums
160: Home
161: Your Account
162: News
163: Forums
164: Forums
165: Photo Albums
166: Forums
167: Home
168: Forums
169: Photo Albums
170: Forums
171: Forums
172: Your Account
173: Home
174: Forums
175: Forums
176: Forums
177: Photo Albums
178: Forums
179: Forums
180: Your Account
181: Photo Albums
182: Photo Albums
183: Forums
184: Home
185: Forums
186: Your Account
187: Forums
188: Forums
189: Forums
190: Forums
191: Your Account
192: Forums
193: Forums
194: Home
195: Forums
196: Your Account
197: Forums
198: Forums
199: Forums
200: Forums
201: Home
202: Photo Albums
203: Your Account
204: Forums
205: Your Account
206: Forums
207: Forums
208: Forums
209: Forums
210: Forums
211: Home
212: Forums
213: Forums
214: Forums
215: Forums
216: Home
217: Forums
218: Your Account
219: Home
220: Home
221: Home
222: Forums
223: Forums
224: Home
225: Forums
226: Forums
227: Your Account
228: Forums
229: Forums
230: Forums
231: Forums
232: Your Account
233: Forums
234: Forums
235: Forums
236: Your Account
237: Photo Albums
238: Home
239: Forums
240: Home
241: Forums
242: Forums
243: Forums
244: Home
245: Forums
246: Forums
247: Forums
248: Home
249: Forums
250: Forums
251: Forums
252: Forums
253: Forums
254: Forums
255: Forums
256: Forums
257: Forums
258: Photo Albums
259: Forums
260: Your Account
261: Your Account
262: Forums
263: Home
264: Your Account
265: Forums
266: Forums
267: Photo Albums
268: Forums
269: Forums
270: Forums
271: Forums
272: Forums
273: Forums
274: Forums
275: Forums
276: Forums
277: Home
278: Your Account
279: Forums
280: Home
281: Photo Albums
282: Forums
283: Forums
284: Forums
285: Forums
286: Forums
287: Forums
288: Home
289: Your Account
290: Forums
291: Your Account
292: Your Account
293: Your Account
294: Forums
295: Home
296: Home
297: Forums
298: Photo Albums
299: Your Account
300: Photo Albums
301: Forums
302: Photo Albums
303: Forums
304: Home
305: Forums
306: Forums
307: Forums
308: Photo Albums
309: Forums
310: Forums
311: Forums
312: Home
313: Home
314: Forums
315: Forums
316: Forums
317: Forums
318: Forums
319: Forums
320: Forums
321: Forums
322: Forums
323: Forums
324: Forums
325: Home
326: Your Account
327: Forums
328: Forums
329: Photo Albums
330: Your Account
331: Forums
332: Home
333: Forums
334: Your Account
335: Home
336: Photo Albums
337: Forums
338: Home
339: Your Account
340: Forums
341: Forums
342: Forums
343: Forums
344: Forums
345: Forums
346: Forums
347: Forums
348: Home
349: Forums
350: Forums
351: Forums
352: Your Account
353: Forums
354: Forums
355: Forums
356: Forums
357: Your Account
358: Forums
359: Forums
360: Your Account
361: Your Account
362: Forums
363: Forums
364: Forums
365: Forums
366: Your Account
367: Home
368: Forums
369: Home
  BOT:
01: Forums

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
 

Coppermine Stats
Photo Albums
 Albums: 308
 Pictures: 2451
  · Views: 820725
  · Votes: 1316
  · Comments: 86
 

National Police Remembrance Day
Discussions run-amok, innane banter it all goes here
Post new topic   Reply to topic   Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index » Spam-O-Rama

View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Vince
Site Admin
Site Admin


Joined: May 25, 2005
Posts: 15704
Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA

PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 4:47 am    Post subject: National Police Remembrance Day Reply with quote

This was shared to me today on Facebook. Although National Police Remembrance Day is applicable only to Australian Police, the words and sentiments expressed in the following are every bit as applicable to Police Officers everywhere.

Dear Citizens, Neighbors, Friends and Family,

My name is B and I am a cop. That means that the pains and joys of my personal life are often muted by my work. I resent the intrusion but I confuse my self with my job almost as often as you do. The label "police officer" creates a false image of who I really am. Sometimes I feel like I'm floating between two worlds. My work is not just protecting and serving. It's preserving that buffer that exists in the space between what you think the world is, and what the world really is.

My job isn't like television. The action is less frequent, and more graphic. It is not exhilarating to point a gun at someone. Pooled blood has a disgusting metallic smell and steams a little when the temperature drops. CPR isn't an instant miracle and it's no fun listening to and feeling an elderly grandfather's ribs break under my hands while I keep his heart beating. I'm not flattered by your curiosity about my work. I don't keep a record of which incident was the most frightening, or the strangest, or the bloodiest, or even the funniest. I don't tell you about my day because I don't want to share the images that haunt me.

But I do have some confessions to make:

Sometimes my stereo is too loud. Matt Corby's voice makes it easier to forget the wasted body of the young man who died alone in a rented room because his family kicked him out of home when he told them he was gay. Coldplay erases the sight of the nurses who sobbed as they scrubbed layers of dirt and slime from a neglected 2-year-old's skin. The Rolling Stones' angry beat assures me that it was ignorance that drove a young mother to draw blood when she bit her toddler on the cheek in an attempt to teach him not to bite.

Sometimes I set a bad example. I exceeded the speed limit on my way home from work because I had trouble shedding the adrenalin that kicked in when a drug crazed women pulled a carving knife out from the chair she was sitting on and tried to stab me in the stomach with it only missing by millimeters.

Sometimes I seem rude. I was distracted and forgot to smile when you greeted me in the store because I was remembering the anguished, whispered confession of a teenager who pushed away his drowning brother to save his own life.

Sometimes I'm not as sympathetic as you'd like. I'm not concerned that your 16-year-old daughter is dating an 18-year-old because I just comforted the parents of a young man who was their only child who slashed his own throat while they slept in the next bedroom. I was terse on the phone because I resented the burden of having to weigh the value of two lives when I was pointing my gun at an armed man who kept begging me to kill him. I laugh when you cringe away from the mess in your teen's room because I know the revulsion of feeling a heroin addict's blood trickling toward an open cut on my arm. If I was silent when you whined about your overbearing mother it's because I really wanted to tell you that I spoke to one of our high school friends today. I found her husband slumped behind the wheel of his car in a tightly closed garage.

On the other hand, if I seem totally oblivious to the blood on my uniform, or the names people call me, or the hateful editorials, it's because I am remembering the lessons my job has taught me.

I learned not to sweat the small stuff. Apple juice on the white sofa and puppy pee on the new carpet don't faze me because I know what arterial bleeding and decaying bodies can do to one's decor.

I learned when to shut out the world and take a mental health day. I skipped your daughter's 4th birthday party because I was thinking about the six children under the age of 10 whose mother left them unattended to go out with a friend. When the 3-year-old offered the dog the milk from her cereal bowl, the dog attacked her, tearing open her head and staining the sandpit with blood. The little girl's siblings had to pry her head out of the dog's jaws - twice.

I learned that everyone has a lesson to teach me. Two mothers engaged in custody battles taught me not to judge a book by its cover. The teenage mother on welfare mustered the strength to refrain from crying in front of her worried child while the well-dressed, upper-class mother literally played tug of war with her toddler before running into traffic with the shrieking child in her arms.

I learned that nothing given from the heart is truly gone. A hug, a smile, a reassuring word, or an attentive ear can bring an injured or distraught person back to the surface, and help me refocus.

And I learned not to give up, ever! That split second of terror when I think I have finally engaged the one who is young enough and strong enough to take me down taught me that I have only one restriction: my own mortality.

Today the 29th of September every year has been set aside as Police Remembrance Day, a time to remember those officers who didn't make it home after their shift.

Take a moment to tell an officer that you appreciate their work. Smile and say "Hi" when he's getting coffee. Bite your tongue when you start to tell a "bad cop" story. Better yet, find the time to tell a "good cop" story. The family at the next table may be a cop's family.

Nothing given from the heart is truly gone. It is kept in the hearts of the recipients. Give from the heart. Give something back to the officers who risk everything they have to keep you and your families safe. And remember Police are just ordinary people facing extraordinary things.


I don't believe I can say anything more than what has been said above, other than to say thank you to all LEO for their time, dedication and strength each and every day on the job.

THANK YOU Salute Salute Salute

_________________
Cheers, Vince Cheers

Illegitimi non carborundum
(Never let the bastards grind you down)

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

"Nulla Si Fa Senza Volonta."
(Without Commitment, Nothing Gets Done)
Back to top
View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger Photo Gallery
Tremblay
Super Member
Super Member


Joined: Oct 08, 2007
Posts: 2645
Location: Malta, Montana

PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 7:03 am    Post subject: Re: National Police Remembrance Day Reply with quote

Been there done that and well said.

_________________
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. - Mark
Twain

Never argue with a stupid person ,cause they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. Mark Twwain
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail
Elvis
Super Member
Super Member


Joined: Jul 27, 2008
Posts: 9239
Location: south island New Zealand

PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:28 pm    Post subject: Re: National Police Remembrance Day Reply with quote

God bless em.

_________________
You shot it You pluck it !
Them who eats the most duck eats the most feathers!
Back to top
View user's profile
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic   Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index » Spam-O-Rama
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 7 Hours



Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum


Valid CSS! Valid HTML 4.01!
Click to check if this page is realy HTML 4.01 compliant for speed :)

All logos and trademarks in this site are property of HuntingNut.com.
The comments are property of their posters, all the rest © 2011 by HuntingNut.com
Interactive software released under GNU GPL, Code Credits, Privacy Policy

.: Upgraded to DragonFly 9.2 by *Dizfunkshunal* :.