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To Tommy 'Lockjaw' Sewell. You knew me as David Deluca when we attended the academy together along with John Demarco, John McCabe, and the others in our class platoon. I bought your motorcycle when you needed money to buy a better one, I sold you my snubnose 38 revolver when you needed an off-duty weapon, I went to Lou Turks with you the day we graduated the academy, and we all went to the Frog somthing or other bar downtown with our wives the night of our graduation. I will never forget the night we were at the FOP Lodge 5, and Steve Branco dropped that beer bottle and we all just watched it roll across the dance floor spilling beer as it rolled missing the feet of all of the dancers on the floor. I tell that story to anyone who will listen. I have since finished twenty five years in law enforcement and am now the Chief of a campus security department in Virginia for the past ten years. I left Philly to continue my LE career in Texas, and I was shocked when I got the news of your death. I will never forget you or the others that I served with in Philly. I give to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund every year in your honor and I have visited you on the memorial wall in DC. Heros live forever Tommy!

Chief David Carlson
Hollins University Security Department
June 18, 2011

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