seticat: (serious - honor-badge - mine)
Six names.




Timothy Brenton
Tina Griswold
Ronald Owens
Mark Renninger
Greg Richards
Kent Mundell

Four may sound familiar, two probably not. So let me give you some more information.

Officer Timothy Q. Brenton
Seattle Police Department, WA
Date of Incident: Saturday, October 31, 2009
Date of Death: Saturday, October 31, 2009[died at scene]
Cause of Death: Gunfire
A planned drive-by shooting.
Training Officer Brenton and Officer Britt Sweeney were going over paperwork in their parked vehicle. Officer Sweeney was wounded, treated and later released from the hospital.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2010211190_honoringalostheroofficertimothybrenton.html

Officer Tina Griswold
Lakewood Police Department, WA
Date of Incident: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Date of Death: Sunday, November 29, 2009 [died at scene]
Cause of Death: Gunfire
A planned execution style shooting.
The four officers were doing pre-shift paperwork at a local coffee shop.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78088192.html

Officer Ronald Owens
Lakewood Police Department, WA
Date of Incident: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Date of Death: Sunday, November 29, 2009 [died at scene]
Cause of Death: Gunfire
A planned execution style shooting.
The four officers were doing pre-shift paperwork at a local coffee shop.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78088192.html

Sergeant Mark Renninger
Lakewood Police Department, WA
Date of Incident: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Date of Death: Sunday, November 29, 2009 [died at scene]
Cause of Death: Gunfire
A planned execution style shooting.
The four officers were doing pre-shift paperwork at a local coffee shop.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78088192.html

Officer Greg Richards
Lakewood Police Department, WA
Date of Incident: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Date of Death: Sunday, November 29, 2009 [died at scene]
Cause of Death: Gunfire
A planned execution style shooting.
The four officers were doing pre-shift paperwork at a local coffee shop.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78088192.html

Deputy Sheriff Kent Mundell
Pierce County Sheriff's Department, WA
Date of Incident: Monday, December 21, 2009
Date of Death: Monday, December 28, 2009 [taken off life support]
Cause of Death: Gunfire
A planned shooting secondary to a domestic violence call to his own home and done in front of his family. He and his partner, Sgt. Nick Hausner, responded to a DV call. Sgt, Hausner was wounded, treated and later released from the hospital.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010591455_apwaofficershooting4thldwritethru.html?prmid=obnetwork

We publicly remember our military, standing between the Barbarians at the Gate and their loved ones at home. Now I ask you to please take a moment to silently reflect on those who do the duty a bit closer to home - especially these six men and women who's families received the 'knock on the door' and were told their loved one wouldn't be coming home.

'To Protect and To Serve'.
seticat: (love - broken heart by lizzielizzie)





"Wild Mountain Thyme"


Oh, the summer time is coming,
And the trees are sweetly blooming,
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the purple heather.

Will you go, laddie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
From around the purple heather.

Will you go, laddie, go?


I will build my love a bower
By yon crystal fountain,
And in it I will pile,
All the flowers of the mountain.

Will you go, laddie, go?
And we'll all go together
To pull wild mountain thyme
From around the purple heather.

Will you go, laddie, go?



Request

Oct. 4th, 2009 12:47 pm
seticat: (* sca - dame-rowan - mine)
This pretty much applies only to those folks in the SCA, but one never knows.

If anyone out there has any photos of Cairbre/Jeff, could they consider scanning them and mailing them to me? We lost so many things in the house fire years ago and our photos were pretty much a 100% loss. Also, if you could ask your friends and have them ask their friends? I could really use some good memories right now.

My thanks to you.
seticat: (love - broken heart by lizzielizzie)
They teach you in EMS that you'll be dealing with people who are having the worst day of their lives at the time you meet them.

This day is mine.

My heart, my soul and the man I've shared the last 22 years of my life with died very early this morning. I found him down, no pulse, called 911 and started CPR. The parameds, the fire department and the police were all here within minutes, but I think I knew in my heart when I found him that the very best efforts would still be too late.

He fought his demons as best he could - he was in pain the last few years, physical as well as in his soul. I'm *not* going to say his demons won - that's not like him at all. But something happened in the dark of the night that took him away from this world and on to the next.

His family here and I don't know the cause of death as of yet. An autopsy is in the works. I just came back from saying goodbye to his physical form. I talked and tried to say so many things that I hope he heard. And I left him with the very first necklace he ever saw me wearing and a pink just opening rose bud from the bush that's growing in wild abandon by the back door.

He was explicit that he did *not* want the 'formal funeral trappings' so as to his wishes, his mom and I saw him today and said our goodbyes at the funeral home. After all the legal aspects are dealt with, his mortal husk will be consigned to the fire and his ashes will be spread in places he loved. Those who wish a memorial shall have one and those who want a wake - he'd love that.

And I *know* that when it is my time, he'll be waiting for me at the end of the Rainbow Bridge. And arm in arm we will walk over it together and be reunited with all our friends both two legged and four in 'the Place Where No Shadows Fall'.

I love you, Jeff. I have loved you and I will always love you.

And Dear Gods I miss you...

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