What have we lost? 
		With the deaths of 
		two officers just gunned
		away,
		The world -- our world -- lost not only
		two persons, unique and special.
		Our world lost some of its safety,
		some of its security, its shield.
		Every other officer lost a part of
		the shield of which each forms a part;
		The shield that shelters all.
		Every one of us within that shield learned,
		perhaps for the first time, that this barrier
		is not impervious.
		It is made up of human beings like ourselves;
		Persons, unique and special
		now lost to our world
		and theirs.
		
		      jo 1978

	For Albert M. "Rusty" Claggett and Brian Swart, 
	Prince George's County Police officers killed 
	in the line of duty June 26, 1978.

	The danger and the losses are the same whenever 
	a peace officer dies for us.

Copyright 1995 Jo Campbell All Rights Reserved

jocee@shore.intercom.net

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