Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Happy New Year baby. Another year I had to bring in without you. It's just not the same, now all it is, is another year that I have to struggle through. We did a shot of Woodford. Yes I had some boubon!! Kaley had a taste of it.......Our child has your taste in drinks. She liked it.
Billy----Just let this year be easier for me, help me cope better or understand more. Understand my feelings about my life and living without you.
I love and miss you more then life itself.
Prissy

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BILLY....SO HARD TO BELIEVE THIS IS YOUR SECOND NEW YEARS EVE IN HEAVEN....SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY....YOU ARE THOUGHT OF OFTEN AND MISSED MUCH.

Hey baby,
It's 6am Christmas Morning and I should still be in bed, beside you waiting for you to wake up or me trying to wake you up so that we could have our time together opening gifts and talking before littlebit would wake up. I always got you up early so that I could open my well thought out gift from you, that you would have teased me with for weeks. God I miss that. I miss so much. It still just seems so off, so sad, so lonely, so wrong celebrating without you. You were what made it so fun. You always could bring out the kid in me and I you. But now... It's another day that I have to force a smile on my face and tell everybody that I just FINE. I am doing my best to try and make it good for Kaley. But it is so hard baby. But I am trying. Today I am having your family over for dinner. Hope everything goes good. I think it will. Just hard at times.
Kaley had a good time lastnight opening her gifts. She was asleep for some of it, but then got real in to it. Loves to open the gifts but then doesn't have much use out of them. She got alot lastnight, Santa came and theres tons more and tonight your family..........Spoiled......... Where will I put it all? I know she should be .
Merry Christmas and help me make it throught everything without showing..... Just help me baby

Love you and miss you more then words can say.

Prissy

MERRY CHRISTMAS BILLY.. SADLY MISSED

KIMBERLY

oh Billy i sit here and read all these wonderful letters to you and prissy and that beautiful little girl and i still can't believe all that happened on that most terrible day. I think about all the good things that i've heard about you and it just doesn't seem real that you were taken from us. I keep your wife and daughter in my prayers every night.i'm so thankful that we were blessed by having you in our family.You were just a super person for anyone to know.

Anonymous

Billy,
Things have been going.....I have gotten married. I now have a two year old (Phoenix) and Brennen turned 4 in July. We also have one on the way. Wilmore is okay. The money is ok, and There is not a lot of overtime. Abby and I just bought a house and we really like it. The memorial they held for you and Chuck was nice. I am FTOing a newbie(Ya, I know, it kind of makes you laugh considering some of the things we used to pull...) and trying to get a DUI here and there. Keep watching over us.......

Patterson
Wilmore

Billy,
It has been a long while since I have talked to you. I thought I would give you a good laugh. (I'M GOING TO MEDIC CLASS!!!) After everything that happened in the last few months of 2001 i realized that I wanted to go for my goal. i thought you would find it kinda funny. after all me a MEDIC. I have added some clippings to my mem. book that I started last year. DOCJT had some articles in their publications. I want bri to know all about the man who stuck his life on the line so others could be protected. if you could tell Daddy Darby I said hi and I miss him too! I miss the flac you used to give me when i was in dispatch. Your headstone is awsome. Kaley is you made over. And Prissy is so strong.. I wished I had the courage and determination she has.
By the way I had to work this year on the 13th. Everytime the tones dropped I jumped. I miss you Billy. We all miss you and will never forget.

amanda
P.S. If you could help a sister out when she needs a good kick in the butt!!(keep me in line for medic class)

amanda
jessamine co ems

Billy,
It has been well over a year and I can still hear you impersonating Cartman. "Respect my Athorita", you always had a smile to show and a hand to lend. We many good times together working the street together. I am no longer patroling Nicholasville as you are no longer patroling the County, but someday I look foward to working with you. I guess ther is no such thing as a Domestic in heaven. Stay safe and don't worry baby girl is growing like a weed.

Dingo

patrolman James D. Floyd
Woodford County Police Dept.

Billy - Why do people keep telling me things will get better with time. It's been alittle over a year and with all that has/is going on in my life I truely feel as if things are still just as hard. Sometimes if not all the time worst. I miss you more and more with everyday that goes by, and just don't understand how to actually go on with my life and be happy. I just can't get it all together in my head and heart. One knows onething and the other won't open up. I love you so very much and miss you even more.

Prissy

The day of Sept. 11 was a tragic and criminious day that will not be intolerant, nor ever be forgotten. I give my condolence to you prissy. You are with my prayers and your family. God bless you and your family.

OIC. Paul Deffebaugh
South Fork Police

Happy Thanksgiving, Billy. I know you're having a feast all your own in Heaven. We miss you terribly and think of you often. I'm just so thankful I got to know you. I saw that precious little Kaley at the Memorial Service. She is so adorable it makes my heart hurt but I know you're watching over her.

Melody

Hey baby- Just got back from the store for all the Turkey Day items. It's just.....well.....strange without you here to kid me about cooking a large meal and this year for your family. And you thought that I would always be shy around them. HAHAHA!!! Somethings I am not able to cook, if people want them they will have to bring them to the house.. Oh yeah, who is going to get the STUFF out of the turkey for me? Great!

Kaley is growing so fast. She is really starting to sound out more words and understands so much. How on earth did we make such a wonderful little package like her. We were truely blessed. I Thank God everday that you got to spend time with her and I have such awsome stories to tell her about you and her.

I love you more then life itself and miss you even more.

Prissy

Hey Billy,
Sorry it's been so long since I have wrote something,and I apologize for not being at your memorial but I was 500 miles away in Georgia because of my new occupation.I turned 21 yesterday I got a application today for the Sheriff's Department in which you already knew.I always told you I was going to get one the day after I turned 21 and I did.I didn't plan on getting one here recently because I have been making good money for Clay.But you always knew that you had to be in it for the job and not the money,because officers don't get paid enough to risk there lifes,you have to love the job just like you did.But I plan on putting my application in after what happened yesterday in which you know what that was...I guess it's a hint from up there to go ahead and apply.I still think about you alot,you were a great officer here and I hope I can be as good as you were here,I tried to learn stuff from you,and maybe I never really acted like I was trying but I learned alot from you.I remember all the reciepts you gave me when I bought your Blazer from you...I kept them just because they had your signature on them.Well I will let you go,I just wanted to let you know that I didn't forget about you and never will take care BRW III and God Bless your whole family.

Kato

WELL, I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY THAT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN SAID BY MYSELF, AND LOTS OF OTHERS. BUT I'VE BEEN THINKING OF YOU VERY MUCH TODAY, AND I JUST HAD TO WRITE-EVEN IF I'M NOT SAYING MUCH AT ALL...

I KNOW THAT YOU ARE HERE WITH US IN A DIFFERENT WAY. THERE IS SOMEONE WHO IS SO MUCH LIKE YOU THAT IS ON THE DEPT. AND I'VE ASKED MYSELF, "HOW DID HE END UP HERE?" HE SAYS SOME OF THE THINGS YOU ONCE SAID. HE HAS RADIO ETIQUETTE SOMEWHAT(ALOT LIKE) LIKE YOURS, HE SEEMS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THINGS THAN OTHERS--AND LETS US KNOW, AND I GUESS IT'S TO REMIND US(NOT THAT WE'LL EVER FORGET)OF YOU.

I KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, SO I'LL LEAVE IT @ THAT. BUT IT'S NICE...AGGRAVATING, BUT WONDERFULLY NICE.
THANKS....HAVE A BEAUTIFUL THANKSGIVING DAY, AND CONTINUE TO REST IN PEACE...YOU'LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN..ALWAYS MISSED

Billy,
Well as I sit here and write out my Thanksgiving dinner list, I can't help but think about you. Prissy and I would be planning our dinner that the four of us have together about now. You would be saying to me in that silly voice "Debbie,Debbie,Debbie I want my broccoli casserole" and of course I would fix it for you. I really miss those times that we had just sitting around talking, me laughing at you mostly and playing games. I will always remember your competitive side and how much you enjoyed to play games. I don't think that I will be able to play monopoly or clue for an awful long time. We will be having game nights over at Prissy's though and you will always be with us. I guess that I will go for now and get back to my list but I just wanted to let you know that you were in my thoughts. We love you and miss you deeply. Deb

Debbie Stevens

November 22, 2002

Dear Billy,

Louis and I made the trip to Nicholasville last Saturday night to see the memorials for you and Chuck outside the Sheriff's Department. They're BEAUTIFUL . . . . and, of course, heartbreaking. As I stood there in the rain looking at the amazing likeness of your smiling face, crying my eyes out, I kept waiting for you to blink or speak. It's a lovely, tasteful tribute to a life well lived and a job superbly performed.

We will celebrate Thanksgiving next week, and you will be uppermost in our minds. We have come to accept that holidays are never going to be easy after 11-13-01. One of the many, many things we have to be thankful for is the opportunity to have known you and called you a friend. We wish you could be here to enjoy a big Thanksgiving dinner--but I'll bet our "feasts" pale pitifully in comparison to the one you'll have next Thursday!

You'll never be forgotten, Billy; we'll never stop mourning your loss. We miss you and love you. Rest easy; you've earned it.

Susan Prater
Friend

The Memorial services for you and Chuck were awesome. Taunya did an excellent job putting it altogether. The monuments look like you two so much so that they look like you should both be able to speak at any time. What a day! "WE WILL NEVER FORGET" was the theme and, Billy, you know we won't. Kaley is such a beautiful little girl and I know you're watching over her from Heaven. As the year mark has passed now, I pray that there has been some healing through the beautiful memorials, and that everyone that loves you can now find some peace and begin to move forward just like I'm sure you would want them to. We'll treasure our memories, Billy. You were one of a kind. Please continue to smile on your family, friends and department just like I know you have been.

I am a resident of Tallahassee, Florida, and a member of the law enforcement community. We have a fallen brother, Sgt. Dale Green, a beautiful christian man, loving husband, providing father, and model officer, who died one year after your beloved Billy Walls. I was paying respects to Sgt. Green on the ODMP, when I read a message from Susan Prater, left for Sgt. Green's family. The message was magnetic, and beautifully written, as Ms. Prater described Billy, and how well loved he was as an officer, and a human being.

I decided to view this memorial to Billy, and I must say that I am honestly overwhelmed. I have never seen an outpour of love, heartbreak, and grief for one person. I could not stop reading message after message, account after account, of how much this man meant to every life he touched. The tears came and continued, as I came to know Billy Walls from the many typed words his friends and family posted. Billy must have been an exceptional person, to have such a tribute of people continuing in his name.

It took a long time, but I read every message...beginning to end. I almost felt guilty, as if I had infringed on something so personal as these beautiful messages. But then I realized something amazing...even in death, Billy continues to touch the lives of everyone around him...even people hundreds of miles away...even people he never met...even me. I'm stunned.

My heart aches for Prissy and Little Bit, as I am a mother of a thirteen month old baby boy. I wish I knew you both, so I could bear some of your pain, or just give you hugs. Most of all, I wish I could have known the man you all love. My heart is with you.

G.
Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement

Billy,
A year later, and it is as clear as ever. I would give anything to see that "gotcha" grin of yours that always seemed to appear across the old booking table in the old jail. No matter how bad of a night we had, you could get us laughing somehow, usually at ourselves. I always knew you would be there when we backed each other in the old North Side. Miss you brother
Pat

Sgt Patrick McBride
Lexington Police

Prissy and Kaley,you girls made it through a very tough year,one that we will never forget. Prissy,you have been a positive figure in our eyes for the strength you have shown throughout this trying time. Your beautiful daughter Kaley is very lucky to have such a positive force in her life. It is very hard to be so young and not have a dad in your life.
I know how you feel,well not quite for I have not lost a husband but I did lose a child,and the hurt will always be there but we learn to handle it more every day. When you look at Kaley,you will see Billy,for she looks so much like him. I am so proud of you and I know your mom,Marcy,is as well. I thought of all of you today,because I know that pain. So my dear Prissy,look to God for guidance and he will deliver. Take care of yourself and Kaley and I send tons of love to you both.
Your friend always
Elsie

One year today, Billy. Anniversary. Supposed to be a happy day. There was nothing happy about November 13th 2002, just like there was nothing happy about November 13th 2001. Tracy and I went to the service at the cemetary, and Casey met us there. On such a sunny yet cold fall day. The conditions mirrored the mood of the day, on the surface bright and cheerful, but masking the cold and solemn emotions we felt. After the service Casey and I went to breakfast and spent an hour just talking. It is the most we have talked, face to face, since we were in D.C. Sitting there, both of us in uniform, I kept waiting for you to walk in and sit down and join us, the three Musketeer's, as it were. I was saddened when I realized that was not going to happen. Just as quickly, though, a smile ran across my face when it struck me that you were sitting right there with us, listening to every word we said. I hardly got to talk to Prissy today. Like last November 13th, I don't think there are words to describe the pain and emptiness, even a year after you were taken from us. I hope she knows just how much we love her, and how many times a day she crosses our minds and we say a little prayer for her. As I am doing right now. Talk to you later Billy.

Officer David K. Day
Lexington P.D.

November 13th, 2002

Here we are on the dreaded day. I can't believe a year has gone by. We all miss you so much Billy. This still doesn't seem real. Your daughter is such a sweet little thing. I'm sure you're proud of her. I hate that it took November 13, 2001 for me to get to know Prissy. You knew what you were doing when you married her. She is the best, a class act all the way.

We're still missing you every day.

Officer Tracy R. Day
FCPS Dept. of Law Enforcement

Billy,
My thoughts turn to Prissy and Kaley as we remember what happened one year ago. I hope they will find strength in God and know that the rest of us are there for them.
There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of you and I will always miss saying "Central to 762". Remember when you had me chasing the phones here in dispatch when you were playing with the intercom system? You really had me going.
Say hello to Chuck and Larry for us, and watch over us, as you did while you were here.
A friend to me you were, and continue to be. Thanks Billy.

Mickey
Jessamine County 911

I JUST PRAY FOR PRISSY AND KALEY TODAY THAT GOD IS WITH THEM THROUGHOUT THE DAY. MAY YOU FEEL GOD'S STRENGTH AND MAY YOU KNOW THAT HE IS WITH YOU. YOU KNOW THAT BILLY IS WATCHING AND SHINING DOWN ON YOU EACH AND EVERY DAY...EVEN THE DAYS WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL HIM WITH YOU...HE IS THERE!!! JUST LOOK AT KALEY'S SMILING FACE AND HER SHINING EYES. HE IS WITH YOU EVERY DAY. I WILL BE THINKING OF YOU ON THIS VERY DIFFICULT, LONG DAY AND PRAYING FOR YOUR STRENGTH.

Anonymous

November 13, 2002

Dear, dear Billy -

It's so hard to believe that this day has arrived. One year since you left us; it just can't be. This year has been painfully long and shockingly fast. I can't remember a year, in my lifetime, of more gut-wrenching heartbreak and rivers of unstoppable tears. It's been grueling, and we could use some rest.

Although we are unable to attend today's memorial events, we will certainly be there in spirit. Not a day goes by that we don't think of all that took place on November 13, 2001. We miss you every day; we grieve for you every day; we wish, more than anything, that we could magically alter the outcome of those tragic few moments.

You positively impacted the lives of so many people while you were here, Billy; you did so much good and tried to help so many people; you loved and were loved in return; you were a dedicated Christian. What more could one hope to achieve? When you arrived at Heaven's Gates, God's greeting must have been, "Well done, good and faithful servant." We're very proud of you, and we will always miss you terribly.

We know that you are resting peacefully in God's sweet and glorious presence for all eternity, which gives us great comfort and hope. We look forward to seeing your smiling face again soon, Billy. We will never forget.

Our love,

Susan and Louis Prater
Friends