In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. Currently, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers from around the world converge on Washington, DC to participate in a number of planned events which honor those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

The Memorial Service began in 1982 as a gathering in Senate Park of approximately 120 survivors and supporters of law enforcement. Decades later, the event, more commonly known as National Police Week, has grown to a series of events which attracts thousands of survivors and law enforcement officers to our Nation’s Capital each year.

The National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service, which is sponsored by the Grand Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, is one in a series of events which includes the Candlelight Vigil, which is sponsored by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and seminars sponsored by Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.)

National Police Week draws in between 25,000 to 40,000 attendees. The attendees come from departments throughout the United States as well as from agencies throughout the world. This provides a unique opportunity to meet others who work in law enforcement. In that spirit, the Fraternal Order of Police DC Lodge #1 sponsors receptions each afternoon and evening during Police Week. These events are open to all law enforcement personnel and their families.

Selected ISP Honor Guard members that attended and participated in the 2017 National Police Week activities were able to receive a tour of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and meet Vice President and Mrs. Pence.

The Honor Guard members also participated in the Candlelight Vigil held on May 13th. The Vigil is a visually powerful ceremony held on the National Mall. During the Vigil, the names of previous years’ fallen law enforcement officers are read aloud. Candles are lit by participants until over 20,000 candles are raised high in tribute to our fallen.

Photo 1- Left to right: Sgt. Todd Harless, Bridget Scott, S/Trp. Zachariah Ruble, Trp. Darrick Scott, Vice President Mike Pence, M/Trp. Geoffrey Gruber, Trp. Wade Heiny, Trp. Charles Murphy, Trp. Patrick Stinson, Elizabeth Stinson. Official White House Photo

Photo 2- Same group with Mrs. Pence. Official White House Photo.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

If I were Donald Trump’s chief of staff, I’d just break his thumbs.

That’s what Reince Priebus should do – and then maybe buy a roll of duct tape.

From Day One of his administration, President Trump has hurt himself and his agenda by doing a lot of stuff that is absolutely stupid.

Does anyone think it was Priebus who was telling Trump to fire FBI Director James Comey?

Or telling him, “While you’re at it, Mr. President, why don’t you undermine your staff and the VP of the United States for a second time.”

What the president desperately needs is an adult in the Oval Office who will stand up to him — and that he will listen to. Maybe it has to be Jared Kushner, because Trump can’t fire his son in law.

Otherwise it’s going to take someone on his staff with the highest authority – maybe Priebus – to stand up and publicly say, “Unless this chaos ends, Mr. President, I’m going to resign.”

Until something shocking like that happens to wake up President Trump, or until he is tied up and sedated by his staff, his administration will be constantly under siege from the left and the fake journalists in the media.

We all know why the liberal Democrats in Washington, Hollywood and the news media hate Trump.

They didn’t want him to be president. They all voted for Queen Hillary and since last November they’ve all been feeling somewhere between sad and suicidal.

So now you have them trying everything they can every day to get rid of President Trump.

But are they really so stupid that they don’t realize yet that even if Trump goes down they still aren’t going to get their President Hillary?

Do they realize they’re going to get President Mike – a savvy, competent, principled conservative who won’t shoot himself in both feet every day?

A President Pence who will be able to work with a Republican Congress to get all the things done that Trump promised but can’t deliver – tax reform, immigration reform, healthcare reform and more?

We know the attacks of the Hysterical Left will never stop until Trump is impeached or driven from office.

But despite the apoplectic editors at the New York Times and the Washington Post and the drooling leftwing anchors and pundits at MSNBC/CNN, President Trump has done nothing yet to be impeached for.

It won’t matter what James Comey says the president asked him to do regarding the FBI’s investigation into the alleged Russian-Trump collusion to prevent the coronation of Queen Hillary, for which there still is no evidence.

What Trump may or may not have said to Comey rises to the level of stupidity, but it doesn’t rise to the level of impeachment.

And the classified information Trump supposedly gave to the Russians in the White House about the fight against terrorists was no different from what President Obama gave to the Russians concerning the terrorists in Syria.

Remember when Rachel Maddow and the Washington Post editorial page went apoplectic after Obama divulged secrets to the Russkies? Neither do I.

President Trump has been, is and always will be the source of the chaos. He’s not in charge of a business anymore, he’s in charge of an administration.

If he keeps going down the crazy road he’s on with these stupid childish tweets and the statements he makes, Republicans will lose control of the House and Senate and any chance for tax reform, immigration reform and health care reform.

And then America isn’t going to be great again. It’s going to be bad again.

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Copyright ©2017 Michael Reagan.