Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Our thoughts and prayers go out to This Officer, as well as the Family, Friends, Department and Community.

This is a loss that will never be forgotten. Hours will turn into days, days turn into weeks, weeks into months and months into years but, the difference that these officers have made will last forever.

We lost Our Deputy Morris Taylor on September 14, 2002. When he joined the other Angels in Blue.

God Bless Our Law Enforcement Officers and Those Who Love Them.

Jack & Tracy Van Dolah
Former LEO/U.S.M.C. & Wife in Sutherlin, Oregon

August 30, 2005

We are so thankful for the police officers who serve us in Huntsville. The loss of Officer Golden is a tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his loved ones.

Grateful Citizens in Huntsville

August 30, 2005

Daniel as an old friend you will be remembered in my heart not only has a hero but the friend I knew growing up with. The friend that no matter how down or sad you were always knew how to make you laugh. I will never forget all the good times that we had. You will be forever missed as my friend and the hero that I always knew you were....
I miss you D...

TIFFANY BILLINGS

August 30, 2005

IN YOUR MEMORY


Don't cry because you think I'm gone,
for I am with you still.
Don't seek reasons to explain
what is simply just God's will.


It's very hard to leave all of you
and everything I've known,
but my work on earth is done now.
Our Lord has called me home.


I know you will find comfort
Just let faith guide your way.
Cause, from the moment I was born,
I have been preparing for this day.


Remember me for the laughter,
that's the greatest gift we give.
Keep me in your heart and mind
because that's where I now live.


If ever you feel you need me,
you can close your eyes and see,
I'm still right here with you,
I'm alive in your memory.

written by:
Anne Ambrose

You and your family are in our hearts and prayers. Godspeed Officer Golden.

wife of a LEO

August 30, 2005

officer,Golden God bless

gilbert daniel

August 30, 2005

My prayers are with the family and co-workers of Officer Golden. Your sacrifice was a great one and will never be forgotten. Enjoy your beat on heavens street brother. We love you.

Georgia Officer

August 30, 2005

G-d Speed My Brother

uc
odps Inv Unit

August 30, 2005

Rest in peace brother, you are a hero to us all.

Officer Shaun McCready
Greenfield Township (PA) Police Department

August 30, 2005

My best wishes go out to the family, friends, and coworkers as you go through this horrible time. Officer Golden was a true hero, and the police community suffered a tragic loss with his passing.

Andrew, Police Officer
Baltimore City Police

August 30, 2005

My sincerest sympathy to the family and friends of Officer Daniel Golden as well as to the Huntsville Police Department. Rest in peace Officer Golden, you are gone but will never be forgotten...

Dispatcher Sue Rusch
Punta Gorda PD, Punta Gorda FL

August 30, 2005

Huntsville, you are not alone. Your brothers here in Limestone are also hurting.Daniel's family, friend's and fellow officer's will be in our prayers.

When God made Peace Officers….”

When the lord was creating Peace Officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.”

And the Lord said, Have you read the spec on this order? A Peace Officer has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, enter homes the health inspector wouldn’t touch, and not wrinkle their uniform.

They have to be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses, and testify in court the next day.

They have to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half- eaten meals. And they have to have six pairs of hands.

The angel shook her head slowly and said, “Six pairs of hands….No Way.”

“It’s not the hands that are causing me the problems,” said the Lord, “It’s the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have.”

That’s on the standard model? asked the angel.

The Lord nodded. One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before he asks, “May I see what’s in there sir?” (When they already know and wishes they had taken that accounting job.) Another pair here in the side of their head for their partners’ safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, “ You’ll be alright ma’am, when they know it isn’t so.”

“Lord,” said the angel, touching his sleeve,” rest and work tomorrow.”

“I can’t,” said the Lord, “I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on civil service paycheck.”

The angel circled the model of the Peace Officer very slowly, “Can it think?” she asked.

“You bet,” said the Lord, “It can tell you elements of a hundred crimes, recite Miranda warnings in it’s sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five judges to debate the legality of the stop…and still it keeps it’s sense of humor.

This officer also has phenomenal personal control. They can deal with crime scenes painted in HELL, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim’s family’ and then read in the daily paper how Law Enforcement isn’t sensitive to the rights of criminal suspects.

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Peace Officer. “There’s a leak,” she pronounced. “I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model.”

“That’s not a leak,” said the Lord, “It’s a tear.”

“What’s the tear for?” asked the angel.

“It’s for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, and for justice.”

“You’re a genius,” said the angel.

The Lord looked sober. “I didn’t put it there,” he said.

Deputy Steve Croley
Limestone County Sheriff's Office

August 30, 2005

Thank you for your courage and bravery. May God bless your family.

Robert C. Pettit
Hartselle Police Dept, Hartselle Al.

August 30, 2005

IN VALOR, THERE IS HOPE. REST IN PEACE YOUR SACRIFICE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

MACOMB COUNTY SHERIFF HONOR GUARD
MACOMB COUNTY SHERIFF MICHIGAN

August 30, 2005

I pray for your family, your bothers and sisters in blue and your friends. I pray God will give them the strength they will need to get through this terrible time. May He bless them with his peace, grace and mercy.

Officer Golden, may the angels lead you to your resting place, your ever lasting home! God bless! We will never forget.

Rosa Waters
Mother of Michael Waters
EOW: September 11, 2003

August 30, 2005

You are a true hero and will never be forgotten by your family and the Blue Family. Very trying times will be ahead for your family, look down on them, protect them. As it says on the National Police Monument in Washington DC, "Hero by Chance, Guardian by Choice." You will always be remembered.

Robert Gordon, father of fallen Officer Michael P. Gordon, EOW: 8/8/04

Robert Gordon, Asst. Chief, Ret.
Riverside PD, IL

August 30, 2005

This is the first time I have visited this site and it is tragic how many colleagues have made the ultimate sacrifice willingly for the people they serve.

My condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of this brave man.

I may be a cop a world away but we are together at heart and brothers all the same.

Rest in peace you deserve it.

From a British Brother in arms.

PC Dave STUBBS
Staffordshire Police, UK

August 30, 2005

My thoughts and prayers are with your family. God Bless You and Thank You for your service.

Private Citizen

August 30, 2005

the alabama stae fraternal order of police auxiliary and myself send our utmost sympathy and condolences to the family, friends, and the huntsville police department. huntsvilles thin blue line has suffered a loss but has not been broken as there are so many of you that still protect and serve.
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.
AUXILIARY MOTTO: "NEVER LET THEM WALK ALONE"

mary mc intyre pres. & national trustee
alabama state fraternal order of police auxiliary

August 30, 2005

AMERICA LOST ANOTHER HERO. OFFICER GOLDEN YOU HAVE EARNED YOUR WINGS..GO PATROL THOSE STREETS OF GOLD. MAY GOD BLESS THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS. R.I.P. BROTHER.

SGT.W. M. RILEY
ARAGON GA POLICE DEPT.

August 30, 2005

I worked for the Huntsville Police Department for 5 years... I still have many friends there and also grieve with you...

Just 5 months back we lost an Officer to gunfire within the Louisville Metro Police...

It is hard to make sense of such a tragic loss... But when God closes one door.. he in turns opens many others....

Have comfort in knowing that Officer Golden loved his job, and paid the ultimate sacrifice so that the citizens of Huntsville can sleep easy at night....

To: Chief Reynolds... stead fast and push forward....

I miss you guys and love each one of you like a brother...

May he rest in peace...

Sgt. Todd Shaw
Louisville Metro Police
Louisville, KY

Sgt. Todd Shaw
Louisville Metro Police

August 30, 2005

Rest easy brother, The watch is ours now.

Officer
Atlanta police

August 30, 2005

My thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family of Officer Golden. I share your pain.

Phillip Miller

August 30, 2005

To the family,friends and co-workers my prayers are with you. There's not much anyone can say at this time to help, just know that you have many people with your thought and concerns on their minds. The one things that I though about during and still continue to think of, was how much Clint loved being a Police Officer.

Officer Golden, I know you were met my many fine officers, just look Clint up for me tell him that we sure miss him everyday.

Your family will miss you everyday but we will never forget you.
Thank you for your sacrifice, you gave all.

Connie Barker
Mother of Clint Walker E.O.W. 1-14-04

August 30, 2005

On behalf of men and women of the Camillus Police Department, our deepest sympathys to the family, friends and co-workers of Officer Daniel H. Golden. Rest in Peace Brother, we have the Watch.

PBA
Town of Camillus Police Department, NY

August 30, 2005

Rest, brother.

Cpl Steve Headley
Mishawaka, IN police

August 30, 2005