Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

In Honor of your Sacrifice and for your family and friends, I salute you as a HERO! May God
Give the family and friends the strength and faith to deal with this tragic loss. Words can not express my sorrow!

"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 BMI © 1993 - All Rights Reserved

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

December 30, 2015

Final Salute Special Agent Lemm, thank you for your service. You are a Hero. Rest peacefully in the presence of God. We are praying for the family and fellow officers and agents.

Former Patrol Sergeant
Johnny Allison
Wylie TX Police Dept

December 30, 2015

Eternal Rest

S. I. Drake, Lt/IPD (Ret)
Indianapolis Police

December 30, 2015

God Bless You, and all Those who serve and protect us.

grateful civilian

December 30, 2015

RIP Brother. Prayers for family, friends and coworkers at NYPD and NY Air National Guard.

Career Officer (Ret.) Victor Agosto
Chesterfield County Police, Va.

December 30, 2015

RIP Brother.Thank you & God Bless.

Lt.Robert M.Petty (retired)
No.Bergen, N.J.P.D.

December 30, 2015

My heart breaks to hear this news. Please know your family and friends are in my prayers and thoughts. God Bless.

Stephanie Harris, LEOW - Spouse of Sgt, LAPD

December 30, 2015

Thank you sir for your service to the country. May the Lord comfort your family and fellow airmen during this very difficult time.

Special Agent-CID
Dept. of Veterans Affairs-OIG

December 30, 2015

God Speed, Brother.

Sgt. K. Murphy
Union PD, NJ

December 30, 2015

Rest in peace my brother. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, your family and the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

James J. Scanlon (Retired CPD)
North American SWAT Training Assoc.

December 30, 2015

Rest in peace Special Agent Lemm. I ask Our Heavenly Father to comfort and watch over your family, friends, NYPD and the US Air Force. Thank you for your dedicated service to our country. God's speed brother.

Chief Jack Cavanaugh
Lee County Port Authority Police Department

December 30, 2015

Rest in peace Brother Joseph.

Ofc. Timothy M. Furlong
Nahant, MA PD

December 30, 2015

Our thoughts and prayers are with family, friends and fellow officers. Thank you for your service. May he Rest in Peace!

Ret. Deputy Sheriff's Tom and Diana Stri
Clayton County Sheriff Office Jonesboro Ga

December 30, 2015

Rest in peace Agent Lemm!
You will not be forgotten!

Willie Bell Hopewell VA!
Friend Of All Law Enforcement Officers!

December 30, 2015

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE. REST IN PEACE.

POLICE OFFICER
NAPERVILLE IL POLICE DEPT

December 30, 2015

Rest in Peace Special Agent Lemm. Thank you for your service. My thoughts and Prayers go out to your family, co-workers, and friends.

Lieutenant Robert T. Mote (ret)
Buena Park, CA Police Department

December 29, 2015

For: Special Agent Chester McBride:
Special Agent Adrian Vorderbruggen:
Special Agent Peter Taub:
Special Agent Micheal A. Cinco:
Special Agent Joseph Lemm:

No amount of sympathy, nor amount of admiration, is ever enough to express our thoughts to the families of these noble men and women who have subjected themselves to the danger of going to war on behalf of the rest of us who are loyal to the United States of America.
We are praying for their families of all of the deceased and to their comrades-in-arms, co-workers at war and/or at home and all who care about them. May each of them be prepared to reach-out to one another at this time.
We are proud to render to each of them a final military salute. We remain forever indebted to them for the selfless sacrifice each has made to their country.
May God's blessing be upon them and may unending honor be bestowed upon these heroes, and all of our dedicated airmen, soldiers, sailors and Marines.

Cpl. Ralph D. Fiorennza (Ret.)
Pennsylvania State Police
December 26, 2015

Cpl. Ralph D. Fiorenza (Ret.)
Pennsylvania State Police

December 29, 2015

MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE AND SERVICE

Ret. TFC Theresa Medcalf
Ga State Patrol

December 29, 2015

Heroes live forever. pra

BLR
Team texas

December 29, 2015

While we are deeply saddened by your passing, the Law Enforcement Community was enriched by your professionalism, your service, and your sacrifice. Our thoughts are with your family, department, and friends. May you Rest In Peace.

Zone 5 Academy Session 59
New York State Regional Law Enforcement Training Academy

December 29, 2015

God Bless You, Your Family, & Friends. Thank you for your unselfish service.

James P Waggle, Jr.
Civilian

December 29, 2015

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, REST IN PEACE.

N.J. TROOPER
NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE

December 29, 2015

A police officer should be remembered not by how he died, but how he lived! A great man has gone to secure a safe path for the rest of us to follow. Thank you to you, your family and the USAF-OSI. Rest in Peace Brother

Anonymous

December 29, 2015

A Prayer for Special Agent Joseph G. Lemm of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations:

We come here today to reverence and remember our fallen comrades who have given their lives in Afghanistan. As we recall the situation there, we are flooded, overwhelmed with a myriad of mixed emotions: anger, outrage,
frustration, bitterness, revenge, confusion and sorrow. Our initial reaction was probably a numbness of shock, a sense of disbelief. We are torn by the inner tensions of an Old Testament "eye for an eye" and a New Testament
"love your enemies." Jesus says: “Greater love than this no person has, but that life is given for others." We are a nation that believes in human rights, a nation which accepts the responsibility of being its brother's keeper, a
nation that cares enough to risk an Afghanistan. Based on these beliefs, we are a nation whose men and women respond at times with the ultimate sacrifice of laying down human life. We mourn their loss and the sorrow their loved ones now feel. We are fiercely proud of them, that in strange lands, befriended by few, assaulted by many, motivated by that sense of "greater love" they gave their lives in a cause of justice and freedom. Yes, we do reverence and remember them. Ones such as they make real the words that we are a "nation under God" striving for liberty and justice for all. May their names be boldly inscribed in the Book of Life and may their loved ones be comforted by the knowledge that they will not be forgotten and that they have not died in vain. Amen.

Pastor Steven R. Closs, MNACM
The Peacemakers Prayer Ministry
Merrimack, NH 03054
Chartered by the National Association of Christian Ministers

Captain Steven R. Closs (Ret.)
Nashua NH Police Department

December 29, 2015

God Bless you all the rest of the fallen. Out United State's Military has suffered a great loss when we lost 6 Airmen/Airwomen in this day of the 21st. And NYC lost a Great officer. This is a hard thing to take as we lost so many Men, Women and K9 this year as well as all our past year's. Prayers to everyone across the world that knew these fantastic people.

Family of LEO's in the state of New Jers
Manville, New Jersey

December 29, 2015