Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

HEY GREG & DADDY:
I STILL CANNOT BELIEVE YOU ARE BOTH GONE. I GO TO THE CEMETERY & SEE YOUR NAMES ON THE HEADSTONES BUT IT STILL DOESN'T SEEM REAL. I KNOW THAT ONE DAY WE WILL BE TOGETHER AGAIN. WILL HAS GONE OFF TO COLLEGE & IT IS VERY LONELY HERE WITHOUT HIM. I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW HARD IT WOULD BE FOR HIM TO LEAVE HOME. I KNOW THAT HE WILL BE BACK BUT IT IS STILL HARD TO BELIEVE HE IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE ON HIS OWN. YOU BOTH WOULD BE PROUD OF HIM--HE IS REALLY SMART & HAS A GOOD HEAD ON HIS SHOULDERS. ANDI IS DRIVING & THAT IS SCARY ISN'T IT--HAHA! UNTIL WE ARE TOGETHER AGAIN, KEEP WATCHING OVER US & KEEP US SAFE ESPECIALLY WILL. I KNOW HE IS HAVING A BALL & I AM GLAD OF THAT TOO BUT I WANT HIM TO BE SAFE. TELL DAD I SAID HELLO & I LOVE HIM. I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH TOO.

DENISE
SISTER

August 25, 2008

Hey Honey,
I just wanted to tell you how much I love you and miss you every single day. I was clearing out a storage tote to pack some of Garyn's college stuff and I found a book of Andi's. It's a personalized first birthday book from Nano and Pepaw. Nothing else was in it except some empty picture frames and a pair of flip- flops. It caught me off guard, I just knew I was going to find something else...but nothing. Any meaning besides of the fact that I need to get Andi's book back to Nano?
These kids are growing up sooo fast. Too fast if you ask me. Will is going off to college. Garyn is going off to college. Trey graduated from college, has a new career and is engaged to an amazing young lady. They are getting married in March( but I refuse to wear an OLD mom of the groom dress.) HA...I know you are laughing but I wish you would please somehow be by myside. Above all...Your Baby Girls need you to watch over them, and while you are at it...please keep an eye on Willbo, Garyn, and Trey as they all go on their new journeys in life. It's a mean world here.

I LOVE YOU GREGGY-POO

Shannon
girlfriend

August 21, 2008

Hey Greg,
I was thinking of you and dad yesterday. I'm always thinking of yall. But it was daddy birthday yesterday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD) I sure didn't forget!!! Partying up there aren't you?! I wished yall could be partying down here with us. Mama is at the Constables training right now. She'll do good!! I Love and Miss both of you. Watch over us. Tracey Girl

Tracey Girl
Sister

July 21, 2008

Hey Greg,
I just wanted to tell that I was thinking about you tonight. I'm sure you see all the crazy calls I have had tonight and got a good laugh at me. I wish you were here to have another party for our shift, we all fell apart when you left us.
We love you
Jennifer Sowell Thurmond

CTO Jennifer Thurmond
Former Sgt for DCSO E-911 now OBPD

July 20, 2008

Hey Uncle Greg,
i was just sittin here thinking about you and pepaw and how much i miss both of yall. i still cant believe yall are gone. i start college at mississippi state in about a month and five days. cant believe its finally to move on and start my own life. i wish u and pepaw were here to celebrate and play one last prank on me before i got out into the real world. i graduated in may and walked across the stage with tears in my eyes lookin up thinkin about how much i love and miss yall..i wish yall were both there to see me but i know yall watched me graduate. i love and miss yall and just continue to watch over us everyday.

Will Woods
nephew

July 13, 2008

hey dad! i havent left you anything on here in a while! i know you know what goes on down here everyday! i miss you so much! i really wish you were still here but i know i cant change that! it still kinda feels like all of this is still a bad dream! it could just be that i rather it to be a dream than real! well dad i love you and we will get to see each other again one day!!! o and i know you see me down here driven now and you are up there just wishen you could play some kinda of prank on me! :) i love and miss you dad!
love, andi (your big head) :)

andi
daughter

July 2, 2008

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

Liz Medlin / Mom
Mother of Lt. Greg Medlin E.O.W. 11/02/03

July 1, 2008

Hi Baby,

Yesterday, Father's day was another bad day without you and Dad. I went to church and the cemetary to let you know I miss you both so very much and think of you all the time. It's still hard to believe that you two are gone. You may not be here with me physically but I feel your presence all the time. Everything I do or hear makes me think of one or both of you.

The girls sat with me at church and said they miss you and Pepaw. Things are getting better with them.

Just know I will always love you and never get use to not seeing your little silly grin everytime you play one of your tricks on someone, ususlly me.

Love you and Dad so much,

Mom

Liz Medlin / Mom

June 16, 2008

Hey Bud.. I think of you often. Miss the way you made us all laugh. I never forget the nights on patrol under your watch. Its been almost 5 Years and it still hurts. Still miss you Lt.
Brad Carson

Chief Brad Carson
Scott County SO

June 13, 2008

Hey Baby,
I just wanted to tell you HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I wish so much you could be here with us to celebrate your day, but I know you and Peepaw are finding some kind of fun up in Heaven. I miss you everyday and don't think I will ever be the same without you. I know life won't.
I Love You,
Shannon

Shannon
girlfriend

May 22, 2008

HEY GREG,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! MY BIRTHDAY JUST PASSED. GETTING OLDER & OLDER BY THE DAY!! WILL'S GRADUATING LATER TODAY. TELL DAD I SAID "HELLO". I WISHED BOTH OF YOU WERE STILL HERE. WATCH OVER US ALL. I MISS AND LOVE YOU AND DADDY SO MUCH. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAREST ONE!!!

TRACEY
SISTER

May 22, 2008

Hey Uncle Greg,
I miss you and pepaw so so much. Can you believe i graduate from high school in about 3 and a half hours. i wish you and him were both here to see me but i know yall will be watching from above. i love yall so much and dedicate everything i do in my life to yall

Will Woods
nephew

May 22, 2008

Hi Baby,

I just wanted to say Happy Birthday and I love you. I thought we would celebrate your day with creamed tacos but my other favorite man, Will is graduating tonignt at 7:00pm. He reminds me so much of you. The way he walks and acts sometimes makes me so sad.

Everyone told me things would get easier but that hasn't happened yet. A day doesn't go by that I don't cry and miss you so very very much. I miss your Dad so much too. He used to help me get through each day of missing you and now I have to do it by myself.

The girls are doing so much better. I hope you know I am doing my best to take care of them.

I love you and Pepaw so very much and hope the angels throw you a big birthday party. Try not to play too many pranks on them today. I can just see that little goofy grin after each joke.

I LOVE YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH!!!!

Mom

Liz Medlin / Mom
Mother

May 22, 2008

HELLO GREG, IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I TALKED TO YOU TOO. SORRY ABOUT THAT! IT'S THE MONTH OF MAY BIRTHDAY'S & GRADUATION TOO!! I CAN'T AFFORD 'EM ALL. WILL & GARYN ARE GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND TREY'S GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!! KINDA HARD TO BELIEVE.I WISHED SO MUCH YOU WERE STILL HERE. DADDY TOO. I LOVE AND MISS YOU BOTH. WATCH OVER US!!! TRACEY/SISTER

TRACEY
SISTER

May 9, 2008

HEY GREG! I HAVEN'T TALKED TO YOU IN A WHILE. CAN YOU BELIEVE WILL IS GRADUATING IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. HOW GREAT IS THAT. LAST MONTH HE HAD A BAD 4-WHEELER WRECK. HE HAD ABOUT 120 STITCHES IN HIS HEAD & A BROKEN FINGER.WE WERE SO THANKFUL HE WASN'T HURT ANY WORSE BUT I BELIEVE IT WAS BECAUSE OF HIS ANGELS IN HEAVEN (YOU AND PEEPAW). THAT IS WHAT I TOLD HIM THAT HIS ANGELS WERE PROTECTING HIM WHEN IT HAPPENED. I STILL MISS YOU BOTH SO MUCH & NOT A DAY GOES BY THAT I DON'T THINK ABOUT YA'LL. WE WILL MEET AGAIN ONE DAY AND BE TOGETHER AS A FAMILY AGAIN. LOVE YOU AND DADDY SO MUCH. TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER & KEEP WATCHING OVER & PROTECTING US.
DENISE

DENISE
SISTER

May 1, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day Greggy-poo...Nothing will EVER be the same without you!!!!

I LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH,
Shannon

Shannon
girlfriend

February 14, 2008

Greg,
I am sitting at work with "Simple Man" Playing and of course crying because you are not the one here playing it for us at a Bon Fire. I miss the old days so much and just don't know how much more I can take.

Love ya and miss you so very much

Jennifer Thurmond
OBPD..Former DCSO Dispatch Sgt

February 4, 2008

Greg,
It seems like yesterday that we were laughing and joking about some crazy call that we had just worked. I think about you and miss you EVERY singel day. You must be in Heaven tonight telling your Dad some of the crazy things that we use to do because I have remembered all of the things we did together. Like the "Bam-Bam" water gun that you shot at me and Candace (well it was supossed to have water in it LMAO) and the guy that kept saying he had "shot" himself in the leg and you gave me a hard time over that 911 call for YEARS because I didn't get what he was talking about until you had to explain it to me. I guess my favorite would have to be when you came into my evalutation before I made Sgt. I'm sure you have told almost everyone about that one. For those of you that he wasn't about to get around to telling ( or for those of you that never had the honor to meet the best Lieutenant in the whole intire world, this will give you an idea of why we all loved working under him so very much). Before I became Communiations ( and before I became pregnant with my second daughter and was very very very skinny) I was sitting in the Sheriff's Conference room with my supervisor going over my employee evaluation, when all of a sudden the door comes busting open and there stood Greg. My supervisor asked, Lt Medlin is there a problem. With a straight face Greg said yes there is, I need to make a complaint on Communications Officer Thurmond NOW. Still with a straight face he told my supervisor to put on my report to add "She needs to gain a few pounds because she has NO ASS AT ALL". We all fell out laughing and Greg never left me live it down. That is the Lt that Greg was, but when it came to work and citizens lives, he ment business and would do anything needed and go above and beyond the call of duty.
Greg,
I miss you so very much and think about you every day
Love Ya Jennifer

Jennifer Thurmond
OBPD former DCSO dispatch Sgt

January 12, 2008

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE WE HAVE GONE THROUGH ANOTHER HOLIDAY WITHOUT YOU & DAD. I STILL MISS YOU BOTH SO MUCH. NOT A DAY GOES BY THAT I DON'T THINK ABOUT YA'LL OR TALK ABOUT YOU.KEEP WATCHING OVER US & TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER.
I LOVE YOU BOTH SO MUCH!
DENISE

DENISE
SISTER

January 4, 2008

Hey Greggy-poo,

I hope you and Peepaw are making the Angels laugh this New Year's Eve.
Just thinking of our trip seven years ago to N.Y. and the states in between just makes me happy and sad at the same time. I wish we could spend another New Years Eve in Cape Cod....Remember our eyelashes were frozen because we just had to get close enough to take a picture of that lighthouse....that was a great trip!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Shannon

Shannon Jones
girlfriend

December 31, 2007

Good Morning Baby,

Merry Christmas to you and your Dad. I still have both of you and your Dad's stocking hanging for you. Santa put a special treat in both of them for you two.

Christmas has lost it's meaning since you and Dad left us. We still go through the ritual but it is not the same.

You will never know how much I love you and Dad. I'll never stop missing you and loving you. I'm just ready for the sadness to let up, but it never does.

I LOVE YOU BOTH SO VERY VERY MUCH!!!!

MOM

Liz Medlin / Mom
Mother

December 25, 2007

Hey baby, another Christmas without you and its just so hard to make simple decisions and I know heaven has to be so much more comforting...save me a cloud next to you please. I Love You So Much Sweetie!!!!!!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS,
Shannon

Shannon
girlfriend

December 25, 2007

"The Badge"
He starts his shift each day
To respond to calls unknown.
He drives a marked patrol car.
A police officer he is known.
He's paid by the citizens' taxes
To make it safe on the streets.
But he usually has a second job
'Cause a waitress has his salary beat.
Now he doesn't know a holiday
'Cause he works all year round.
And when Thanksgiving and Christmas finally arrive
At his home he cannot be found.
He's cursed and assaulted often,
The one whos blood runs blue.
He seldom ever gets a thanks,
To some he's just a fool.
His friends are always other cops
'Cause people just don't understand
That underneath his badge and gun,
He's just another man.
He knows there might not be a tomorrow
In this world of drugs and crime.
And he gets so mad at the court system
'Cause the crooks don't get any time.
And each day when he leaves for work,
He prays to God above.
Please bring me home after my shift
So I can see the ones I love.
But tonight he stops a speeding car,
He's alone down this ole' highway.
It's just a little traffic infraction.
He does it everyday.
Well, he walks up to the driver's window,
And his badge is shining bright.
He asked the guy for a driver's license,
When a shot rang through the night.
Yes, the bullet hit its mark,
Striking the officer in the chest.
But the Department's budget didn't buy
Each officer a bullet-proof vest.
So he lay on the ground bleeding.
His blood wasn't blue - His blood was red.
And briefly he thought of his loved ones
'Cause in a moment the officer was dead.
In the news they told the story
Of how this officer had died.
And some who listened cared less,
But those who loved him cried.
Well, they buried him in uniform
With his badge pinned on his chest.
He even had his revolver,
He died doing his best.
Written By:
David L. Bell
Sergeant
Richland County Sheriff's Department
Columbia, South Carolina
Used with Special Permission of the Author
Copyright © 1999 - All Rights Reserved
and may not be duplicated without permission

Investigator David L Bell
Richland County Sheriff's Dept., Columbia, SC

November 29, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving Baby, I love you!
~Shannon

shannon
girlfriend

November 22, 2007

Hi Baby,

I can not believe that four years ago today you left us.
I saw Winky in court today. We talked about you.

I just talked to Andi. She called to make sure I was OK. I have been trying to take care of her and Danielle like I promised you but, I haven't been too successful.

I'm glad you are not alone, I know Dad is there with you. I never would have imagined how hard it is to just get through each day without the two of you. I love you both so very much and I know life will never be the same since we lost both of you.

Tell Dad I love and miss him. It seems just like yesterday that you were still here with me.

LOVE--------Mom

Liz Medlin / Mom
Mother of Lt. Greg Medlin E.O.W. 11/02/03

November 2, 2007