[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 82 (Thursday, May 16, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E607-E608]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING GARDEN GROVE'S FALLEN FIVE

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                          HON. J. LUIS CORREA

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 16, 2019

  Mr. CORREA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the City of Garden 
Grove's Fallen Five: Sergeant Myron L. Trapp, Officer Andy Reese, 
Officer Donald F. Reed, Officer Michael Rainford, and Master Officer 
Howard Dallies, Jr.--the officers Garden Grove has lost in the line of 
duty.
  On October 6, 1959, Sergeant Myron L. Trapp was responding to a call 
involving a man who was angry about the noise from road work on his 
street. Trapp was trying to talk the man out of his house when a fellow 
officer approached the front door. The man fired his rifle through the 
door. He missed the first officer but struck and killed Trapp.

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  Officer Andy Reese, a reserve officer, was directing traffic during 
the Strawberry Festival on May 30, 1970 when an impatient driver sped 
past slow-moving traffic and hit Reese, killing him.
  On June 7, 1980, Officer Donald Reed and three fellow officers 
entered a bar to serve a man with an arrest warrant. Reed was escorting 
him out the back door when the man drew and fired a semi-automatic 
handgun. Reed was struck in the chest and killed.
  Officer Michael Rainford was conducting a routine traffic stop on a 
Garden Grove Freeway on-ramp while on patrol on November 7, 1980. He 
was killed by a drunk driver.
  Master Officer Howard Dallies, Jr. pulled over a motorcyclist on 
March 9, 1993. As Dallies approached the motorcycle, the driver fired 
six shots at the officer, hitting him four times. He was rushed to the 
hospital, where he died from his wounds.
  For the past three decades, the city of Garden Grove has honored the 
Fallen Five with a memorial service that brings together family, 
friends, and colleagues of the fallen officers, as well as community 
organizations and the public, to pay tribute to the lives and 
sacrifices of these men. This year, the theme of the Call to Duty 
Police Memorial is `The Thin Blue Line,' a symbol of law enforcement 
solidarity.
  These five brave men donned the uniform and badge for the Garden 
Grove Police Department and they all sacrificed their lives to keep 
their community safe. I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring these 
officers for their service.

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