Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Barb
I am so sorry to hear about your loss.Our thoughts and prayers will be with you and your family throughout the days to come.
Love your cousin from Tennessee
Ginnie (McMahan) Irwin.

Anonymous

December 10, 2008

Sumner County and the State of Tennessee are safer today because of your service and sacrifice. My Prayers are with your family, friends, and co-workers. God speed, Brother.

Officer B. Evans #2447
Arlington, TX PD

December 10, 2008

To our friend and brother in blue. You will always live in our memories and hearts. I wish you could have spent more time here with us, but I know we will meet one day soon and we will laugh and smile again.

Our prayers and thoughts are with Brian`s Wife, step daughters and family both in blood and in blue. As we all grieve and mourn the loss of Brian, Other`s rejoice at his arrival.

What is Death?
Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
that we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference in your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without affect,
without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner.

~ Henry Scott Holland

Michael Yother
National Criminal Enforcement Association

December 9, 2008

Godspeed Sir...Go in Peace

Ptn. R.Murphy

December 9, 2008

Rest In Peace, Deputy Denning.

Lt T Carr
NYPD

December 9, 2008

Blessed are the peace keepers, for they are the children of god...bless you and your family.

Trooper Wesley Stafford
Tennessee Highway Patrol

December 9, 2008

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

K-9 Officer Tom Summerville Jr
Eutaw Police Department

December 9, 2008

The Metro Nashville Police Department wants you to know that all 30 members of Session 59 feel your loss and our prayers are with you in this sad time. May GOD be with you and all of your family in your time of need.

Police Officer Trainee Gann
Metro Nashville Police Academy

December 9, 2008

Deputy Denning Rest in Peace.

C.O.Stephen D. Celestino
Westchester County Dept. of Correction, NY

December 9, 2008

Our thoughts and prayers to the family, friends, and co-workers of Deputy Denning. God Bless him for his service to the Sumner County Sheriff's Department. Rest in Peace sir, you will not be forgotten.

Sgt. Jim May (ret)
CMPD Charlotte, NC

December 9, 2008

Our hearts and prayers go out to your family and friends in their time of sorrow. May God Bless and Rest in Peace!

CPL II David Murphy
TX DPS

December 9, 2008

Our condolences to the family of Deputy Denning. May you rest in peace my friend.

Deputy Chris Wells
Portsmouth Sheriff's Office (Va)

December 9, 2008

Rest in peace brother and thank you for your service.

Gordon Hobbs
NC Game Warden

December 9, 2008

Dep Denning, you'll never be forgotten. May you rest in peace, our brother.

Sgt Richard Eckert
Town of Chester PD

December 9, 2008

Deputy Denning,

Rest in peace brother.

Detective Dave Howell
Plano,Texas Police Dept-Auto Theft

December 9, 2008

We were so saddened by the news. You will be missed by all that knew you!! May God be with the family.

Tony and D'Ann Jordan
Friends

December 9, 2008

Rest in peace Deputy Denning, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. Thank you very much for your service.

Shelly
Citizen

December 9, 2008

MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF OFFICER DENNING AND THE SUMNER CO SHERIFFS DEPT.

REST IN PEACE BRIAN.

MONICA JONES COMMUNICATIONS
GOODLETTSVILLE POLICE DEPT

December 9, 2008

"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

Richland County Sheriff's Department
Columbia, South Carolina
Used with Special Permission of the Author
Copyright © 1993 - All Rights Reserved
and may not be duplicated without permission

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

December 9, 2008

BRIAN DENNING, THAT NAME WILL MAKE YOU SMILE. A MAN WHO NEVER HAD NOTHING BAD TO SAY ABOUT NO ONE. LOVED HIS COUNTRY,LOVED HIS FAMILY AND LOVED HIS JOB. WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS MONDAY MORNING I WONDERED WHY WOULD THIS HAPPEN TO A MAN FULL OF LIFE.I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH BRIAN AND I TRYED TO REMEMBER HIM EVER GETTING MAD OR UP SET. I COULD ONLY REMEMBER A FEW TIMES. HE DID NOT WONT NO ONE MAD AT HIM, AND IF YOU WAS HE WOULD WHAT EVER IT TOOK TO MAKE YOU GET OVER IT! WE LOVE YOU BROTHER. RIP. WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU AND WHAT YOU STOOD FOR.YOUR FAMILY IS IN OUR HEARTS AND PRAYERS...

KEN LEGGE
FRIENDS

December 9, 2008

Brian you were always a great friend and work partner, We have been friends for years and I will miss you greatly, RIP my friend
Sgt. Michael Mclerran
Sumner County Sheriffs Office

Sergeant
Sumner Co. Sheriffs Office

December 9, 2008

Rest in peace brother, your sacrifice will never be forgotten...............

Detective Edward Carlile
Northfield PD (OH)

December 9, 2008

Rest in Peace Sir......................

Officer Thomas Wiederhold
Fort Worth Texas PD

December 9, 2008

Thank you for your service, Dep... and to your family, I'm so sorry for your loss. We grieve together though we are far apart. Take good care of each other and May God Bless all who loved him.

Pat Locke, Federal Field Agent
US Postal Inspectors, Grand Rapids, MI

December 9, 2008

Thank you for your service! May God Bless you, your family, and friends during these extremely difficult days.
RIP

PO James McParland Jr
Mount Vernon PD NY

December 9, 2008