Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Your sacrifice will not be forgotten, may you rest in peace.

Tfc. Christopher Black
Maryland State Police

July 10, 2007

Officer Kozminski,
You gave your life for so many people instead. You are a true Hero. God bless you and rest in peace. Watch over your daughter and family. You will be missed and not forgotton.

Lorna A. Ring
Mother of Fallen Officer Joselito A. Barber EOW 8-13-06 Seattle PD, WA

July 10, 2007

Officer Kozminski, you have paid the ultimate sacrifice and are truly a hero to all who wear the badge. My deepest sympathy go out to your family, friends and co-workers you are in my thoughts and prayers. God speed my brother, and rest in peace!

Detective Marnie Mills
Kent County Sheriff Department

July 10, 2007

Rest in peace my Brother...

Sergeant
Toledo police

July 10, 2007

GOD BLESS OFFICER KOZMINSKI AND HIS FAMILY.

OFFICER MARY ELLEN RUMOLA
SHREWSBURY BOROUGH POLICE, NEW JERSEY

July 10, 2007

Your sacrafice will not be in vain. God bless you and your family brother.

Ptl D Carruth
East Brunswick PD, NJ

July 10, 2007

My prayers go out to officer Kozminski's family and his fellow officers, the early morning is still very real in my mind, I was outside by the street in front of the emergency room entrance, taking a break from being by my grandmothers side that morning when officer Kozminski's fellow officers rushed him to the emergency room in one of the police cars. My prayers for officer Kominski and his family started at that very moment, and will continue each day .

jill

July 10, 2007

Officer R. Kozminski, you don't know me and we have never met. We patroled the same streets we called hell and our job, while the public called them same and free. I can't immagine how your co-workers, family, friends and department are handling your tragic loss. We just got done go through the same May 16, 2007. I want you to know that my sympothy goes out to you, your family, your co-workers and your department. Knowing that you are going to be patrolling the streets of heaven I know that you will be watching our sixes down hear. I want you to meet up with Dep. F. Fabiano #147 KSD up in heaven and keep those streets safe up there. I will do my best down hear with our other brothers and sisters. I hope to someday patrol the streets of heaven with you. God bless you, your family, your friends, and your department.

Deputy 3rd Shift
Kenosha Co. Sheriff's Dept.

July 10, 2007

Prayers and Blessings flow throughout the County of Kent for the Kozminiski Family, GRPD, Citizens and Friends of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Rest In Peace

Cheryl Brewster
Citizen

July 10, 2007

My brother officer, your age and your years of service hits home with me, as I'm sure it does with many others. Rest in peace. Your sacrifice shall not be forgotten.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God."

Trooper
Delaware State Police

July 10, 2007

This day we said goodbye to a hero, this day God welcomed one home.

Patrolman Dwayne Delcour
Mansfield Police Mansfield, Mo

July 10, 2007

My deepest condolences and symapthies to the family and fiance of this very young and very heroic officer. He im sure was there for reasons that we don yet know....My God look down form above on all of you and be with you during this time.

July 10, 2007

To Officer Kozminski - Thank you for being such a good role model for our children of how real heros behave.
To Officer Kozminski's family - I hope your many happy memories bring you some comfort in this time of sorrow.
To Officer Kozminski's fellow police officers - Know that your daily sacrifices are recognized and appreciated and you are all in our prayers.

Elaine Moon
MIL to a Deputy

July 10, 2007

On the day of Officer Kozminski's murder, we honored his service by reading his entry from ODMP in our patrol briefing. Each day, we honor one fallen officer so as to keep them in our thoughts, and also to remind us of the dangers of this job. Our thoughts are with his family and his agency. Officer Kozminski is not forgotten.

Agent Zach Perron
Palo Alto (CA) Police Department

July 10, 2007

May you rest in peace Officer Kozminski. Thank you for the 7 years of service that you have given the community. May the Lord watch over your daughter, parents and your fellow brothers/ sisters at GRPD.

Reserve Deputy Michael Zomerlei
Kent County Sheriff's Department

July 10, 2007

To Officer kozminski family and friends our hearts and prayers go out to you''

God Bless you

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio Miyares, Hialeah PD, Fl 11/6/86

July 10, 2007

Rest in Peace Brother

Officer Eric Newbury
California Highway Patrol

July 10, 2007

I do not live in Grand Rapids or know the fallen officer, I am just writtting with my prayers for everyone. I lost a cousin whom was a Howard City Police Officer a few years ago whom was also a young man and way to early to be taken from us. He too passed doing his passion as he had always wanted to be an officer. His life was taken do to a car accident bringing in an inmate. I would like to just thank all the officers out there who do put their life on the line each and every day. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Jeannie

Jeannie
concered citizen

July 10, 2007

My thoughts and prayers will be with your family. Brother you gave the ultimate sacrifice and for that you will be rewarded. Your job is not done, just assigned a different team. Rest now and your brothers and sisters in blue will take from here.

God bless and you not be forgotten.

ofc
Wyoming P.D, Wyoming Mi

July 10, 2007

THE ULTIMATE HERO

You died to save all our lives
all the sibs, husbands & wives,
your courage and bravery are unsurpassed
in our hearts forever, your memory will last.

Your compassion lifts our souls
your discipline should be all our goals,
your bravery is like no others
I thank you for saving my sisters and brothers.

Thank you for keeping us secure and safe
Thank you for the love in your heart,
Thank you for looking forward everyday to helping complete strangers and most of all thank you for being that person in blue that i define as the ULTIMATE HERO.

Me and my wife Pam don't know Officer Kosminski and his family. We believe that Robert is very big part of Gods Angels now. Our hearts and tears go out to Officer Kosminski's family & friends.
With all our love and prayers and sincere sadness, we need to say that God gained an angel the other day.

Steve & Pam Zalewski
Very thankful citizens

July 10, 2007

In my 27 year career, I have lost 5 best friends in the line of duty. Each time, GOD has passed the Sword of Justice. 7 years ago, HE passed it to you, Bobby. You have made HIM proud. You may now pass it on. GOD Bless you, your family, and the Grand Rapids Police Family...TUEBOR!

Det. Greg Huizar/Retired
Detroit PD

July 10, 2007

Our thoughts and prayers are with the loved ones of Bob Kozminski. May God bless you and be with you through this very tough time.
Rest in Peace Bob, you truely are a "Hero".

Bob & Paula Norris
Citizen

July 10, 2007

We live in a world gone mad. Police officers go to work every day knowing this sort of thing can happen. Where would we be without the dedicated law enforcement officers who hit the streets every day and night. RIP.

Det Ron Miller (ret)
Burbank, CA, PD

July 10, 2007

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 police 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
his uniform.


"He has 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.


"He has to be in top physical condition at all times,
running on black coffee and half-eaten meals. And he
has 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 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 he already knows and wishes he'd taken
that accounting job.) "Another pair here in the side
of his head for his partners' safety. And another pair
of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a
bleeding victim and say, 'You'll be all right ma'am,
when he knows it isn't so."


"Lord," said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and
work on this 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 a 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 the
elements of a hundred crimes; recite Miranda warnings
in its sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest
a gang member on the street in less time than it takes
five learned judges to debate the legality of the
stop... and still it keeps its sense of humor.


This officer also has phenomenal personal control. He
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, for justice."


"You're a genius," said the angel.


The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," he
said.


Anonymous

Michael Kniaz
Retired Detroit Police Dept.

July 10, 2007

Officer Kozminski, you are a true hero. I worked a municipal PD for several years and one of my biggest fears was being ambushed. You did not die in vain. Only those of us that have walked in your shoes know how it feels to walk into the unknown. You died a real hero in the eyes of all the law abiding citizens that didn't have the nerve to walk into that dark backyard, just so that you could protect them from what happened to you. God Bless you brother, rest in God's arms until we meet in that great precinct in the hereafter.

Retired Major Dennis Wooten
Huntsville Police Department, AL

July 10, 2007