I must say that the revelations of this past week concerning this police officer whom everyone believed to be a hero who died in the line of duty in Fox Lake, Illinois, have been more than a little upsetting.
At first, it was hard to believe he had committed suicide which was bad enough, but then to learn that the suicide was committed to avoid the fall out from his stealing money from the Explorer Post he ran, well that was a real knockout punch.
His death caused much fear and worry here in the Fox Lake area (we live five miles from the village). Plus, the amount of grief and public outpouring toward his family was unprecedented. I doubt that any police officer had received more recognition from his town.
We attended two fund raisers as well as spent hours out on US-12 when they had the two+-hour procession from his funeral to the cemetery.
I sure wish we had known about the stealing and myriad of other things he did that were not square before we went trough all of that.
However, I'm just going to think we also did it to honor other police officers who have fallen in the line of duty and will continue to keep my blue light on.
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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