Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Special Agent William "Buddy" Sentner, III

United States Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Government

End of Watch Wednesday, June 21, 2006

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Reflections for Special Agent William "Buddy" Sentner, III

Someone killed an Agent today
and a part of America died.
A piece of our country he swore to protect
will be buried with him at his side.
The suspect who shot will stand up in court,
with counsel demanding his rights...
While a family grieves on long lonely nights.
The environment in which he worked was a battlefield too,
just as if he'd gone off to war.
Though the flag of our nation won't fly at half mast, to his name they will add a gold star.
Yeah, somebody killed an Agent today in your town or mine,
while we lived in comfort behind our closed doors
An Agent put his life on the line.
Now a ghost fills his feet, on a dark city street
while he stands at each new Agents side.
He answered the call and gave his all
And a Part of America Died.

Special Agent J. Riekers
US Dept of HHS, Office of Inspector General

June 22, 2006

Special Agent Sentner..you - your family - friends & co-workers are in my thoughts & prayers during this difficult time..please watch over them & your fellow brothers/sisters in blue..YOU ARE GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN..REST IN PEACE & WITH EASE BLUE ANGEL!!!!

mi state police recruit
mi

June 22, 2006

SA Senter,
May you rest in peace. Thank you for your service; you will not be forgotten.

Special Agent
HHS/OIG

June 22, 2006

Rest in Peace Brother

Dep. Bennett
Henry County Sheriff's Dept. (indiana)

June 22, 2006

My thoughts and prayers are with your family. God Bless.

Special Agent
HHS/OIG

June 22, 2006

Thank you for your service, rest in peace brother.

Inv. Ronnie Austin
State Attorney's Office, Tallahassee FL

June 22, 2006

S/A Sentner you will be greatly missed by everyone! Rest in peace my brother.


Glou. Co. Sheriff's Department

June 22, 2006

Specia Agent Senter,
Thank you for your years of dedicated service to kkeping this country safe. It will always be remembered. To his family, friends, and law enforcement family please know that you are all in my thoughts and prayers. To all law enforcement officers, do not be embarassed over the fact it was a correction officer who took this heros life. This officer died a hero and the coward who took his life was no law enforcement officer. Nothing he did made him a law enforcement officer. Just because a person wears a uniform does not make him the person that a true law enforcement person is. It's what is in the heart

Ellen Guerdat
Rochester Police Department Victims Assistance/
WNY Concerns of Police Survivors

Ellen Guerdat
RPD Victims Assistance/WNY C.O.P.S.

June 22, 2006

The Florida Police Chiefs Association would like to express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Special Agent Buddy Sentner, and the USDOJ - Office of the Inspector General. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this time of great sadness. Please take comfort in knowing that your extended law enforcement family grieves with you. Special Agent Sentner, we thank you for your service. You will not be forgotten.

Members and Staff
Florida Police Chiefs Association

June 22, 2006

While we did not know you, we are truly grateful for your dedication, mourning your death; never forgetting your sacrifice! Not to worry, dear friend, your brothers and sisters in blue will carry on your watch for you ~ may you rest in peace.

Daniel & LaWanda Ross
Citizens/Iowa

June 22, 2006

Reality

Imagine how our world would be
If every police officer quit
Turned in their gun, turned in their badge,
Just finally had enough of it.

No respect, no loyalty,
No appreciation of all they do,
They’d give their lives for all of us,
These wonderful officers of “Blue”.

Kicked at, spit on,
Punched, stabbed and shot,
Everyday assaults on officers,
Done…without thinking a second thought!

Our laws are in favor of criminals,
There’s always some loophole in their case,
Out again to commit more crimes and murders
…creates pain, that we, the family and friends
…in time will never erase.

Why should they do it?
Why take the risk?
Why put their life on the line?
Subject their loved ones to endless suffering,
When their precious life is lost while fighting crime.

More murders, more kidnappings, more robberies and rapes,
Just to mention a few,
Please ask yourself how life would be,
If there were NO officers in Blue!

Would you do it? Could you do it?
And for how many…would YOU give it all?
Rewards are a 21 gun salute, a Medal of Honor,
And your name gets added to the Wall.

Think about it. Why are they here?
And why do some hate them so?
Because they enforce the laws that put convicts and murderers
In jail serving time, or on “Death Row”.

All give some and some give all,
It’s a risk they chose to take:
To put their heart and soul in it,
To put their lives at stake.

So, please take a moment,
Please give it deep thought,
Think of what “you can do”…

To help show respect,
To help follow the laws,
So we’d quit losing our Heroes in Blue!

Written by Jaclyn Pocceschi Mosley
Sister of Fallen Officer Rodney F. Pocceschi EOW 6/23/03
Fallen Officers Remembered, Founder & President
www.fallenofficersremembered.com


fallen officers remembered

June 22, 2006

Rest in peace brother, you will not be forgotten.

Patrolman Shaun McCready
Altoona (PA) Police Department

June 22, 2006

My deepest sympathy to the family, friends and co-workers of Agent Sentner; may he rest in peace and always be remembered as a hero.

Linda Lamm - LEO wife and sister of
Jay Balchunas EOW 11.05.04

June 22, 2006

May God watch over your family and friends in their time of need. We will hold them in our prayers.

God speed sir.

Friends of Larry R Cox EOW 4/21/05
Chillicothe Ohio Police Department

June 22, 2006

My sincerest sympathy to the family and friends of Special Agent William Sentner as well as to the United State Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General. Rest in peace Special Agent Sentner, you are gone but will not be forgotten...

Dispatcher Sue Rusch
Punta Gorda PD, Punta Gorda FL

June 22, 2006

Each day I seach this website, reading the tragic stories of men and women taken too soon from this world. How sad I was to hear of Agent Sentner being taken. I first heard the story on the radio, then saw his name on this page. I moved to Fl only a few months ago after losing my husband in the line of duty. I grieve for each of the families that lose another brother or sister.. how horrible to be another "brother"....this man wore a disguise, pretending to be an officer of peace...with hatred in his heart.. My love and prayers go out to the REAL brothers and sisters of Agent Sentner... he will never be forgotten!!

Chrissy Henley, surviving spouse
William "Drew" Henley, Suffolk Va PD, EOW 3/19/05

June 22, 2006

Agent Sentner Heavens New Angel,

It takes a Honarable Man to wear the Uniform of a Peace Officer and It takes a Male to tarnich it. May God watch over your Family and your Adopted Family with the United States Department Of Justice. God Speed My Brother and God Bless!!!

Correctional Officer
California Department Of Corrections

June 22, 2006

It is a shame your life ended so young by someone you, and everyone, thought could be trusted, a fellow law officer. You will always be remembered, God Bless you and your friends and family!

Michael, Philadelphia PA
Grateful citizen

June 22, 2006

God bless Special Agent William (Buddy) Sentner, his family & friends, and the law enforcement community that strive to make this planet a safer place to live each day.

Corporal P.R. OLIVER
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

June 22, 2006

We are so sorry to here about your tragic loss of a loved one in law enforcement. Our thoughts and prayers go out to you in support. As we personally know, sometimes there is little comfort that comes from words. Keep focused as you can on the memories and joyous times for these things may bring you comfort. Rely heavily on family, friends, and other law enforcement. Honor your fallen loved one, for their sacrifice will not be forgotten.


Alissa Scott
Widow of Beryl Wayne Scott
E.O.W. 09-10-02

Lisa Schultz
Widow of Don Schultz
E.O.W. 05-12-04

Co-Founders of Survivor Help Network

June 22, 2006

Hero's never die, they just take on new assignments.

GOD Bless you and your family.

Rest in Peace.

OFFICER PALADINO
COLORADO SPRINGS PD

June 22, 2006

I am so sorry that your life was taken in such a tragic way. By a coward who was hiding behind a badge that was not a badge of honor. My sympathy and prayers to your wife, and family and friends and your Police Family. To you Special Agent Sentner, you will never be forgotten and will be in my daily prayers. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication and the sacrifice you made in protecting the citizens of our country. God Bless you as you now sleep in God's Love and in His Peace and now patrol the Heavens with all your Brothers and Sisters in Blue.
Respectfully,
Kathi Halligan Phila PA wife and mom of LEO

Kathi Halligan
Phila PA

June 22, 2006

S/A Sentner, may you rest in peace..

Our condolences, thoughts, and prayers are with your family.

Anonymous Agent - SC

June 22, 2006

As I sit here and try to digest all of this information, I wonder how your family is coping with this. I want your family to know that we at FCI Tallahassee deeply regret the actions of a few and please don't judge all of us for them, S.A. Sentner gave his life today to make society a better place for all of us and may the Criminal who took his life burn in Hell for eternity.

Senior Officer
BOP

June 22, 2006

Special Agent Sentner you are a hero. Thank you for your years of service to your fellowman and our country. Rest in peace my brother. May God bless you and your loved ones. May God give your loved ones the strength to get through this difficult time. We will carry on the watch now.

State Constable J.L. Green
S.C. State Constables

June 22, 2006

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