5/15 is National Peace Officer's Memorial Day. Here is Dallas, almost a year ago, we lost 5 officers, 4 police and 1 DART officer in a shooting. This is "Herme" that is the name I gave the statue, and he is a donation to the fraternal order of police. It was hard to let Herme go because for a while I talked to him like he was a friend. No he did not talk back to me, but, one of the detectives who investigated a sexual assault for me had lost her husband in the Dallas Ambush Shootings, and I initially called to see if she herself had been shot because I had gotten fragments of information over the radio, and recognized her last name. Then I called back from my emergency medical line and very irately and angrily told her to disregard my last message-it was just some man- not knowing it was her husband. About 20 minutes later I had gotten the update that it was not just some man it was indeed her husband, so I called again for the third time to tell her that I was sorry for her loss, and later on I called the victim's crime unit where I had originally met her through and asked if she was ok, that I was not calling for me anymore, just wanted to know if she was ok. They told me that she was doing alright, that she had been through a lot but that she was still working and that she had had a lot of support. I refuse to do business with anyone who had brought up her investigation during testing times at one of our colleges, because to me they are either impeding on her investigation that she handled, or breaking the privacy they had me sign over closing the matter.
I took Herme to our State Capitol for Valentine's Day, Someone invited us down to speak up over Family Violence, so I went down for that and included Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking in my talks with legislators and online, just because I figured if you are going to have a day against violence, you might as well lay it all out at the same time. It was difficult to talk about somewhat, I would clam up in between rooms, but other than that, Herme stayed in the car, and then he came with me to visit with the Texas African-American memorial. We had a tent outside for the event to talk about supporting bills to protect those who had been through violence essentially.
The plaque at his feet reads "In honor of our fallen, but not forgotten, officers, & gentle giants. For the love of their county, city, and country. We will never forget: Lorne Ahrens, Patrick Zamarippa, Michael Smith, Michael Krol, & Brent Thompson.
Herme then visited the Peace Officers Memorial, and a few other places. For those of you who have never been to Restland, where my grandfather is also buried, the garden of honor, is only for the fallen police officers, and the statues next to them with the angels holding them up towards the sky, are from a local Dallas family, some of whom I have met.
I attended the vigil & later on contacted the fraternal order of police to let them know that I had made Herme for them. I did not tell them the knight's name was Herme, just that I had made it for them. Herme is a blessed inanimate object you can talk to.
I took Herme to our State Capitol for Valentine's Day, Someone invited us down to speak up over Family Violence, so I went down for that and included Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking in my talks with legislators and online, just because I figured if you are going to have a day against violence, you might as well lay it all out at the same time. It was difficult to talk about somewhat, I would clam up in between rooms, but other than that, Herme stayed in the car, and then he came with me to visit with the Texas African-American memorial. We had a tent outside for the event to talk about supporting bills to protect those who had been through violence essentially.
The plaque at his feet reads "In honor of our fallen, but not forgotten, officers, & gentle giants. For the love of their county, city, and country. We will never forget: Lorne Ahrens, Patrick Zamarippa, Michael Smith, Michael Krol, & Brent Thompson.
Herme then visited the Peace Officers Memorial, and a few other places. For those of you who have never been to Restland, where my grandfather is also buried, the garden of honor, is only for the fallen police officers, and the statues next to them with the angels holding them up towards the sky, are from a local Dallas family, some of whom I have met.
I attended the vigil & later on contacted the fraternal order of police to let them know that I had made Herme for them. I did not tell them the knight's name was Herme, just that I had made it for them. Herme is a blessed inanimate object you can talk to.
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