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The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
"Our Hitch in Hell" is a ballad by American poet Frank Bernard Camp, originally published as one of 49 [1] ballads in a 1917 collection entitled American Soldier Ballads, that went on to inspire multiple variants among American law enforcement and military, either as The Final Inspection, the Soldier's Prayer (or Poem), the Policeman's Prayer ...
Family wrote in Montiverdi’s obituary that one of his greatest honors as police chaplain was reading “The Policeman’s Prayer” at the Worcester Police Memorial Sunday service.
The three-volley salute is a ceremonial act performed at military funerals and sometimes also police funerals. The custom likely originates with Roman funeral rites. Dirt would be cast on the body three times followed, and the ceremony was ended by the deceased's name being called three times.
The community Sept. 14, 2024 honored the life and service of Brian Peek, a fire police officer in Goldsboro, who died in the line of duty Aug. 16, 2024.
The service, in Washington’s National Cathedral, was a paean for a humble man from a tiny Georgia town who rose to great power — a peanut farmer, nuclear physicist, submariner, husband, father ...
These funerals are reserved for the President of the United States (as commander-in-chief), the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and officers granted multiple-service command. For funerals of presidents, a 21-gun salute using artillery and battery pieces is fired (not to be confused with a three-volley salute ...
At Dallas Service, a Unifying Message in Politics President Obama and former President George W. Bush spoke Tuesday at a funeral service for the five slain Dallas police officers.