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Town Marshal Paul Matthew Patrick

Atlantic Beach Police Department, Florida

End of Watch Monday, September 12, 1932

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Reflections for Town Marshal Paul Matthew Patrick

Town Marshal Patrick,
On today, the 101st anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice-not just for your Community but for our Country as well when you served with the U.S. Army.

R.I.P.
USBP

Anonymous
United States Border Patrol

September 12, 2023

Rest in peace Town Marshal Patrick.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

September 12, 2022

The City of Atlantic Beach is deeply grateful for your service and sacrifice, and we are proud to recognize you, albeit it many decades later. You were "the man in the arena," braving all to defend the rule of law and to protect others. God bless you and your family.

In the words of Teddy Roosevelt:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Mayor Ellen Glasser
City of Atlantic Beach

May 4, 2022

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9

Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

May 3, 2022

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