How soon America forgets the sudden wave of shock, pain and suffering we experienced on 9-11. It is as if we suddenly awoke on an operating table to the horrible pain of live surgery only to be given more anesthesia and now we are back asleep.
What was lacking most on that day? It was not the police, fire fighters or emergency personnel, many of whom gave their lives. The Red Cross was there taking blood donations and helping the physical bodies of victims and rescuers. They all were there! So what was needed?
It was my privilege to visit the police hall of fame and the fallen officer memorial not to long ago. There in the hollowed rooms were once notorious murders stopped by heroic men and women who place their lives on the line each and every day.
It seemed that the likes of Baby Faced Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly did not belong in a museum next to the memorial of murdered law enforcement men and women. Yet, here along side of the likes of Lee Harvey Oswald, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker and her murdering sons, is a memorial with only names carved in stone. Just outside in case of glass are guns and replicas of instruments that the murders used, their names infamous but in the cold darkened memorial I found there no service revolvers no famous names, no implements of revenge. I found only the names fallen heroes etched in stone.
Region Seven ICPC Training
Several hundred LEC chaplains gathered in Little Rock, AR for a week of really great training. In the rotator below are other pictures of the International Conference of Police Chaplains region seven for 2011. Several UPCI chaplains are members of ICPC as am I. Pictured here are three other UPCI chaplains with myself that were at the conference this week. OCA accepts ICPC training as well as Hospital CEP training, FEMA and Home Land Security training which are all excellent training programs.
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Chaplain David Ferrell wrote the following email to me ... I think it is so neat when we can be invovled with people on the outside of our churches and minister to them and their families. Chaplain Ferrell we are proud of you ... oh and I wished I could sing as good as you do. Thanks for being part of the team!
Greetings Brother Dillon,
Last night I sang the fireman's prayer at a community event honoring our fire dept. My wife played. My wife and I tweaked the arrangement a bit.
Bro. Ferrell
Hospice Chaplains
Below you will find one of the most unique videos on Hospice care you will ever find. Eighty five percent of Angola inmates will die in prison, Hospice Care is how they are coping with this need.
Please click on the video below for a rare look inside of Angola's Hospice care!
