[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9552]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          NATIONAL POLICE WEEK

  Mrs. DOLE. Madam President, I rise to honor those officers from my 
home State of North Carolina who have lost their lives in the line of 
duty.
  In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation designating 
May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date 
falls as National Police Week. During this week, tens of thousands of 
law enforcement officers come to Washington for events that honor their 
fallen comrades.
  Police officers are our country's first line of defense. They 
dedicate their lives to making our Nation safer. While our 
servicemembers are fighting enemies abroad, our law enforcement 
officers are protecting our cities and towns here at home.
  Sometimes this duty calls for the ultimate sacrifice, and, over the 
past year, North Carolina lost nine heroic officers: Charles Johnson 
Adcock Callemyn of Durham; Jason Christian Campbell of Greenville; Sean 
Robert Clark of Charlotte; James Heath Hardin of Hope Mills; Howard 
Joseph Plouff II of Winston-Salem; Jeffry Ryan Shelton of Charlotte; 
Alan Christopher Silver of Rocky Mount; Shawn Joshua Dean Williams of 
Old Fort; and Bobby Lee Cox of Burke County.
  North Carolina, and indeed the whole country, is forever indebted to 
these and all of the Nation's police officers who have lost their lives 
in the line of duty. May God bless the families of these brave men and 
women and comfort them with the fact that their loved one's service has 
made America a better, safer place.

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