Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO DEPUTY WALTERS', HIS FAMILY AND THE KEMPER CO S.O. DURING THIS DIFFICULT TRAGEDY.

GOD BLESS YOU, BROTHER IN BLUE.

DETECTIVE RUTILO QUEZADA
SMITH COUNTY SHERIFF TYLER, TX

July 19, 2007

We are saddened to learn of your passing Deputy Walters. Your service to the law enforcement profession is very much appreciated.

May you find peace and may your family, friends, and colleagues feel the strength of our prayers.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of my department,

Officer Matthew Lewek
Menomonee Falls (WI) Police Department

July 19, 2007

You & your family are in my thoughts & prayers. God Bless.

Sgt. J.L. Brewer
Retired L.S.P.

July 19, 2007

May The Peace of The Lord be with you in your time of sorrow.Sincerely,Kathy

Kathy Hill
Richland,Ms.

July 19, 2007

On behalf of the men and women of the Camillus Police Department, our deepest sympathies to the family, friends and co-workers of Deputy Sheriff William John Walters. Rest in Peace Brother, we now have the Watch.

PBA
Town of Camillus Police Department, Central New York

July 19, 2007

My prayers and sympathy go out to your family, friends, fellow brother and sister officers, entire department, and to the citizens whom you served and protected. Peace be with you as the angels carry you far into the heavens above , where as God has you 10-4 forever more in his loving care. "A Hero does not become a Hero by their death, but by how they lived their life." God Bless!

Police Dispatcher Sara Singleton
Howard County Maryland Police Communications 911 Center

July 19, 2007

Rest in peace brother, you will not be forgotten. Our thoughts and prayers are with your family,friends, and co- workers at K.C.S.D.

Sgt. Jim May
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept.

July 19, 2007

Deputy Walters, you will be in my prayers.
Rest easy now my brother, we'll handle the tour from here.
GOD BLESS

Sgt.Kenneth Bowman
Washington Township PD (Toledo, Ohio)

July 19, 2007

Deputy Walters, you will be in my prayers.
Rest easy now my brother, we'll handle the tour from here.
GOD BLESS

Sgt.Kenneth Bowman
Washington Township PD (Toledo, Ohio)

July 19, 2007

Rest in peace brother. We've got the watch from here. May God bless your family, friends and fellow officers who all mourn the loss of yet another hero.

Motor Officer Dominick Marraccini
Easton Police Department, Easton, PA

July 19, 2007

My thoughts & prayers are with you.

Citizen
Grand Rapids, MI

July 19, 2007

May you rest in God's peace

REV

Chaplain Michael Grinnals
Camillus Police Department

July 19, 2007

A POLICEMAN'S PRAYER
BROTHER WHEN YOU WEEP FOR ME REMEMBER THAT IT WAS MEANT TO BE.
LAY ME DOWN AND WHEN YOU LEAVE REMEMBER I'LL BE AT YOUR SIDE...IN EVERY DARK AND DREARY ALLEY I'LL BE THERE AS YOU SLOWLY TREAD, ON EVERY STREET CORNER IN THE DRIVING SNOW I'LL HOLD YOUR COAT AND YOU WILL KNOW.
IN PLACES WHERE THE DEVIL IS AFRAID TO WALK...
AT DOORS WHERE YOU MEET RESISTANCE...
IN HOUSES WHERE CHILDREN HIDE...
YOU KNOW I'LL BE AT YOUR SIDE.
THE PLACE FROM WHICH I NOW RESPOND IS OVERSTAFFED WITH HEROES GONE...MEN WHO ANSWERED ONE LAST JOB AND DID IT WELL.
AS POLICEMEN WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A CARD DEALT IN OUR HAND...A CARD WE HOPE WE NEVER PLAY BUT WE HOLD IT THERE ANYWAY.
THE CARD IS SOMETHING WE IGNORE AS WE STAND ON THAT THIN BLUE LINE EVERY TOUR...FOR WE KNOW THAT WE ARE THE ONLY PRAYER FOR MANY OUT THERE.
SO REMEMBER, AS YOU WIPE YOUR TEARS, THE JOY I HAVE KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE YEARS...AS THE JOB I LOVED TO DO I PRAY THAT THIS THOUGHT WILL SEE YOU THROUGH.

-AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Corporal John Halligan
Philadelphia Police Department

July 19, 2007

Deputy Walters,
Your sacrifice will not be forgotten. You and your family are in our prayers. Rest Easy Brother!

Dep. Paul Sperandeo Ofc. Amy Sperandeo
Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Office, Gretna Police Dept La

July 19, 2007

My sincerest sympathy to the family and friends of Deputy Sheriff William Walters as well as to the Kemper County Sheriff's Department. Rest in peace Deputy Walters, you are gone but will not be forgotten...

Dispatcher Sue Rusch, CTO
Punta Gorda PD, Punta Gorda FL

July 19, 2007

May you Rest in Peace Sir..................

Officer Thomas Wiederhold #1890
Fort Worth Police,Tx

July 19, 2007

Rest in peace my brother in blue. Now you can walk Heaven's beat. Your family, friends, and co-workers with the Kemper County Sheriff's Department, are in my thoughts and prayers.

God Bless

Sr. Officer D. Johns
City of Sandy Springs Police, Georgia

July 19, 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

Sergeant Christopher Ditoro
NYPD 123 Pct

July 19, 2007

My thoughts and prayers to all who knew and now miss Deputy Walters.

May God lay His healing hands upon the family.

Retired Captain Joe L. Gilliland
Danville, KY PD

July 19, 2007

Rest In Peace.

#2959
U.S. Marshals

July 19, 2007

To the family of Deputy Walters: My your heart find peace knowing that your loved one died doing a job the he loved.

Carolyn Jones
Wife of Deputy David C. Jones EOW 1-26-03

July 19, 2007

Rest in peace brother, your service and sacrafice will not be forgotten!

Patrolman Jeff Tripp
Marion,Ma Police Dept

July 19, 2007

Rest in Peace Deputy Walters..my prayers go out to your family and home and on the force. Thank you Sir.

Karen Perrucci
Sister of Ofc. Gary D. Pagano EOW 9/14/1982

July 19, 2007

Rest in peace Deputy Walters...

Lieutenant
Genesee County, Michigan

July 19, 2007

Deputy Walters, Thank You for your service to your community and to your country. May God watch over you, your family and the members of the Kemper County Sheriff's Department. Rest In Peace brother for you performed your duties admirably.

CBP Officer - Port of Honolulu
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

July 19, 2007