This page is dedicated to the men and women in blue who put their lives on the line everyday so we can sleep easier at night and to the families they leave behind that live in fear of the phone or doorbell ringing and hearing the words

"There has been an accident-----"

Only For The Brave

~ J.S. Schilling ~

When all is said and done

And our duty ends like the evening sun

We sometime forget

That there is a person

Behind the badge and gun.

With bronze and brawn

We answer the charge of call,

But it is our heart that gives it all

And it is the soul that feels the pain

When one of us innocently does refrain.

For there comes a moment in time

For which we can not understand

Its reason or rhyme,

That wounds those well-born in blue

For them whose essence is true.

So when our intrepid brother

Does with valence lapse,

We take this moment after

To express a sincere thought

"That because you were here

The world is a better place

For which you have so bravely fought"

 

Written for

Officer Timothy Hartsell

of the Charleston Police Department

 

 

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