On Tuesday, I paid my respects at the make-shift memorial erected at the site of where Officer John Pawlowski was killed. Today, on my way to get some chicken noodle soup from the deli, I passed the memorial again. I took a moment to say a prayer.
Then I noticed that the memorial had grown by leaps and bounds. Now it features a tarp to safeguard all of the paraphernilia that people left in remembrance. I also noticed something else. Left on top of everything else was a piece of paper with racial epithets and the like scrawled across it.
I know memorials like these are sacred. At the same time, someone from his family seeing something like that made me wince. So I stole it.
I did. I stole it. The cashier at the Dunkin Donuts tried to help me dissect the language, because I could not figure out what the paper was saying. We gave up, concluding it was the rantings of a nut.
I wish crazy people wouldn’t pollute memorials like this.
Save it for the forums, the Facebook groups and the blogs.
This isn’t the place for political/racial discussions.
It’s about honoring the memory of someone who died trying to serve and protect.
Good for you!!!
Ditto!
That was not Bad !!
That was Good.
Johns family has been threw enough they do not need to see any thing bad.