Trooper Salvatore J. Embarrato

Dear Brother, Today is Sunday, Sept. 29th, the Feast day of St. Michael the Archangel who is the patron saint for police officers; and it also marks the day on which you were born, in 1931...making this day too, what would have been your 93rd birthday. I think back to that July 6th Thursday in 1961 when you were supposed to be off since you had worked the July 4th holiday weekend...and that favor you did for a fellow trooper which ended with the accident that took you from your life and ours. I don’t think I will ever understand what purpose any tragedy serves, and I don’t think there will ever be any justifiable answers for those of us who were and are made to suffer and grieve any untimely losses. Mom and Dad were heartbroken and devastated from that day forward. Dad wanted to have the trooper car that you drove that day impounded and gone over since he felt that it must have been a problem with the steering mechanism that caused you to not come out of the u turn you were making. The truck driver who was on the thruway said he saw the trooper’s light on the roof of the car go on and black smoke coming out of the exhaust as the car went straight across the road and over the small guardrail and down the embankment. At the time NYS didn’t have the budget necessary to purchase new Crown Vics and the ones that were being used were not in the best condition. One of your fellow officers told us that the car you took that day was always the last one left, because the door on the driver’s side had to be tied by a rope to the inside to be held closed. That day and all that followed are etched in my memories. Officers from the tri state area police depts. and fellow troopers were all in attendance, lined up and at attention outside our parish church as the mass had attended and we were making our way to your resting place. Mom and Dad would visit you religiously every Sunday. I pray now that all of our loved ones are happy and together with you in God’s promise. God bless you Sal for watching over our family and for being a loving son and wonderful big brother. Rest peacefully in His light and promise of eternal life. I did send a floral basket in your memory yesterday, to be placed at the Trooper Memorial in Tarrytown for today in Wishing you a very blessed birthday. You are loved, still so very missed and you are in my thoughts and prayers always. You will never be forgotten, as this next generation also knows about their Uncle Sal.

Anita
sister of Tpr Salvatore J. Embarrato eow 7/6/61

September 29, 2024