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Day 24: We Give Thanks for our Police

Note from Jack: The world is so full of these wonderful, giving people who we may never meet, people who help us get through our day, people who protect us.

I AM YOUR BADGE
An excerpt from Gifts by the Side of the Road
by John Wayne "Jack" Schlatter

As long as I exist, there will be civilization.

Your life will be longer because I am willing to risk my life being shorter.

Before every criminal I arrest can be judged guilty, I must be proven to be just.

If one of my brother officers commits an act of cruelty, it is seen throughout the entire world, while the countless kind and heroic deeds remain the best-kept secrets on earth.

Along with traffic control, crime prevention and mystery solving, I have also...

Talked to your children in school,
Pulled you out of burning buildings and wrecked cars,
Helped your babies be born with only a squad car for a delivery room,
Supported charities, coached little league teams and ushered at mosques, churches and synagogues.

I belong to the roll call for the ages. My name appears alongside:

The Centurions of Rome,
The Knights of the Round Table,
The Minutemen of Lexington and Concord.

The strain I have endured has created problems in personal relationships.

The danger I face has often cost me health and even, in some cases, life itself... Continue

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Mary Robinson Reynolds
Founder, Heart Productions & Publishing
makeadifference.com

www.GiftsByTheSideOfTheRoad.com

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