Police Officer Brandon Nykori Sigler Mobile Police Department Alabama Tuesday, June 2, 2009  Leave a Reflection  Return to Memorial  Print This Page  Continue Building Book  Page: 1 of 82 of 83 of 84 of 85 of 86 of 87 of 88 of 8

To the surviving fiance of Brandon Sigler:

I spoke last week with another surviving fiance and wanted to reach out to you and offer my condolences for I know you have a very heavy heart as does Brandon's immediate family. Although my earlier reflection didn't make mention directly of your own personal grief, I know the dreams you had of a life with Brandon were also shattered.

I pray for solace for all those who love and miss Brandon. May you too get the support you need from the law enforcement community.

Rest In Peace, Brandon. I am so sorry you were robbed of your life at such a young age.

Phyllis Loya
mother of fallen officer Larry Lasater
2009-11-09

it's been a few months but it's still hard to believe that such a sweet person is gone. we can't wait until the day that we see you again. we love you.

Kierra
family
2009-10-01

This past Saturday was to be your wedding day. My prayer is that you were dancing with Angels, celebrating the love you shared with your fiance' while on earth. Please know that those of us left behind have made her and your family, part of our family.

Anonymous

2009-09-09

BRANDON WAS A SWEET PERSON WHO WILL LIVE ON IN ALL OF US. HIS SMILE SAID WAS BRIGHT ENOUGH TO LITE A DARK STADIUM. AND HIS LIGHT WILL FOREVER SHINE.

!!!!!WE ALL LOVE AND MISS YOU!!!!!

Kierra Scott
his cousin
2009-08-12

TO THE FAMILY,FRIENDS AND FELLOW OFFICERS OF BRANDON SIGLER. MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU ALL. MY YOU FIND COMFORT IN EACH OTHER AT THIS TIME.THOUGH I DID NOT KNOW BRANDON HE WAS A TRUE HERO. HIS SMILE SAID IT ALL.I RECENTLY SAW WHERE HE WAS HONORED. I SAW THE PRIDE IN YOUR FACES.ALWAYS KNOW HE WILL BE WITH YOU IN YOUR HEARTS AND ALL OF THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES WILL NEVER FADE. I KNOW THAT FOR A FACT. I LOST MY BROTHER 3 YEARS AGO. HE SERVED ON THE SARALAND POLICE DEPT.FOR 7 YEARS. WE MISS HIM DEERLY. TIMES WILL BE TOUGH BUT THE PAIN DOES EASE.AND WE HAVE SOMETHING WONDERFUL TO LOOK FORWARD TO, THE DAY WE GO HOME TO OUR LORD OUR HERO'S TONY AND BRANDON WILL BE WAITING AT THE GATE FOR US. I'M SURE THAT THEY ARE GUARDING THE GOLDEN GATES. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER A TRUE HERO NEVER DIES.MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

MADONNA ANDREWS/CIVILLION
SISTER OF FALLEN OFFICER ANTHONY ANDREWS
2009-08-08

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Anonymous

2009-07-25

Rest in peace my brother in blue. Thank you for your service.

Reserve Deputy K. Edge
WCSO
2009-07-25

Chief Dean Strzelecki and the entire Niles Police Department send our deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Officer Sigler. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. Godspeed.

Niles, Illinois Police Department

2009-07-21

REST IN PEACE.

PO ADAMS
NYPD 46 PCT
2009-07-19

Officer Sigler,
I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of Mobile. And to your family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

R.I.P.
USBP

Anonymous

2009-06-25

Rest in peace Warrior. Your brothers will take over.

Officer
Citronelle Police Department
2009-06-25

ON BEHALF OF THE HUNTSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WE OFFER OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY AND CO-WORKERS OF BRANDON. MAY HE REST IN PEACE AND NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.

INV HAROLD HUTCHISON (RETIRED)
HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA POLICE DEPT
2009-06-18

Rest in Peace. My thoughts and prayers go out to your family and fellow officers.

Sergeant Aimee Hawes
Minneapolis Police Department
2009-06-17

Rest in peace brother. We've got the watch from here. May God bless your family, friends and fellow officers who all mourn the loss of yet another hero.

Motor Officer Dominick Marraccini
Easton Police Department, Easton, PA
2009-06-14

rest in peace, brother
provincial constable marty lalonde
ontario provincial police

provincial constable marty lalonde
ontario provincial police
2009-06-14

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Officer Sigler as well as the brotherhood at Mobile Police Department. May you rest in God's eternal peace our brother!

Detective Mark Techmanski
City of Syracuse, NY Police Department
2009-06-12

Officer Sigler, and honorable profession you chose on and off duty. Our hearts go out to your family. May justice be served.

Teri McPhail
Wife of Jackson County FL Deputy
2009-06-11

The death of Brandon Sigler reads as though it was ripped from the pages of a police novel: the humanity and goodness of the officer, the ignorance and badness of the shooter, the lack of complexity of the situation, and the once-bright future, shattered.

For some of us, however, it is absolute reality.

If it were a novel, people would close it and read something else. In this case, footage of Saturday's funeral procession will air with the voice of a reporter against a background of bagpipes, and the public will have a moment of genuine sympathy for the family of Brandon Sigler.

That sympathy will be unintentionally blighted by the announcement of the weather forecast, and tomorrow morning, members of that general public will sit through red lights and convince themselves that the cop "blue-lighting" his way through the signal doesn't have a "real" emergency.

And then there are those of us who are married to the police and never see the weather because we don't watch the news.

We Saran-wrap dinner because the red-light blow-through was a robbery, and the suspect still hasn't confessed.

To us, Brandon Sigler was a member of our family — and his death reinforces the daily acknowledgement that we, too, could easily awaken in the center of the nightmare Sigler's family is now living.

We are different from the general public: We know that our lives could be forever changed by a thug who gets a shot off first.

We accept a fact about safety and civilization that most people refuse to believe: that these things are fragile concepts upheld by the possibility of a bullet flowing from the barrel of a police-issue Glock.

We are realists and pragmatists, and we grudgingly accept being married to rough men who go out in the night so that other people might sleep through it.

We fall asleep on our couches to avoid empty beds because of the midnight reality that no cop is ever off-duty.

We kick ourselves for having a midnight craving when we're pregnant, because he takes too long at the store and that could mean there's a robbery in progress.

We listen to the highs of catching a "perp" in a foot chase, and the lows of a notification of a victim's family. We know they can't bear to wake up new babies because they've seen too many SIDS cases, and we never take an argument past the keying up of a radio or the donning of a vest.

We discuss funeral affairs and last wishes while still in our 20s, and we write wills before our babies are born.

We pay attention when they shave and we learn how to tie neckties, in case we are the ones forced to teach our sons these things instead of them.

We take deep breaths to ward off a spike in blood pressure when we hear complaints about police officers, and we bite our tongues when people make jokes about Krispy Kreme.

We find ways to make up the difference when our checkbook tells us that being a cop isn't financially worth the trade.

And we attend funerals of officers we never met, because regardless of a lack of introduction, such an officer is our family and will never be reduced in our minds and hearts to a news blip or a photograph on the wall at headquarters.

He is the flesh and blood who gave more than was asked, who lived and died protecting the people who fought against him and serving the people who complained about him. To us, Brandon Sigler is exactly like the person we send out the door every day, hoping like hell he comes home.

Let this society not make Brandon Sigler just a smiling face in a photograph or a news clipping. Remember him when you complain about a traffic ticket or an increase in police pay, when you sit on a jury and when you cast a ballot in an election.

Remember him when your child wanders away from you and is returned by a police officer, or when you arrive to an intact home due to the patrolman riding the beat while you're working.

Remember that Brandon Sigler spent his adult life doing something that is easily taken for granted: protecting you.

Let it not be overlooked or forgotten.

Anonymous

2009-06-10

My thoughts and prayers are with Officer Brandon Sigler's family, friends, community & Police family. We lost a hero on June 3, 2009.



The Final Inspection

The policeman stood and faced his God,which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining just as brightly as his brass.
"Step forward now, policeman. How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To my church have you been true?
The policeman squared his shoulders and said.
"No, I guess I ain't because those of us who carry a badge
can't always be a Saint."
I've had to work most Sundays
and at times my talk is rough,
and sometimes I've been violent,
because the streets are awfully tough.
But I never took a penny that wasn't mine to keep...
though I worked a lot of overtime when the bills got to steep.
And I never passed a cry for help
though at times I shook with fear,
and sometimes, God forgive me, I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place among the people here.
They never wanted me around except to calm their fear.
If you've a place for me here, Lord, it needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much, but if you don't...I'll understand"
There was a silence all around the throne where the Saints had often trod.
As the policeman waited quietly for the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, policeman.
You've borne you burdens well.
Come walk a beat on Heaven's streets.
You've done your time in Hell"
(Author Unknown )


To ALL the men and women who wear the badge, THANK YOU for all you do.

Kerrie McGill Dorsey, Police Wife
Mobile, AL
2009-06-10

My thoughts and prayers are with Officer Brandon Sigler's family, friends, community & Police family. We lost a hero on June 3, 2009.



The Final Inspection

The policeman stood and faced his God,which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining just as brightly as his brass.
"Step forward now, policeman. How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To my church have you been true?
The policeman squared his shoulders and said.
"No, I guess I ain't because those of us who carry a badge
can't always be a Saint."
I've had to work most Sundays
and at times my talk is rough,
and sometimes I've been violent,
because the streets are awfully tough.
But I never took a penny that wasn't mine to keep...
though I worked a lot of overtime when the bills got to steep.
And I never passed a cry for help
though at times I shook with fear,
and sometimes, God forgive me, I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place among the people here.
They never wanted me around except to calm their fear.
If you've a place for me here, Lord, it needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much, but if you don't...I'll understand"
There was a silence all around the throne where the Saints had often trod.
As the policeman waited quietly for the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, policeman.
You've borne you burdens well.
Come walk a beat on Heaven's streets.
You've done your time in Hell"
(Author Unknown )


To ALL the men and women who wear the badge, THANK YOU for all you do.

Kerrie McGill Dorsey, Police Wife
Mobile, AL
2009-06-10

Brandon, you will truely be missed by everyone at the 1st Precinct. Your infectious smile will also be missed. Look forward to meeting up with you again in heaven one day. I know you will be that shining star with the huge smile. Peace out!

Alicia Bettis, FIT
Mobile Police Department
2009-06-10

On behalf of the 5,352 members of the American Association of State Troopers (AAST), we extend our sincere condolences to Officer Sigler’s family as well as the members of the Mobile Police Department. AAST members throughout the United States know first hand what all of you are going through right now. We will continue to keep you in our thoughts and prayers.

Ken Howes, Executive Director
American Association of State Troopers
2009-06-10

REST IN PEACE OFFICER SIGLER WE ALL THROUGH OUT MOBILE COUNTY WILL MISS YOU THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY ALTHOUGH YOUR WATCH HAS ENDED HERE WE KNOW YOUR STILL 10-8 IN HEAVEN

reserve flotilla
mobile county so
2009-06-09

I am so sorry for your loss. There is nothing one can say at a time like this that gives real comfort. But, God is the Great Comforter so lean on Him. God bless you all.

Rusty Cox,Information Clerk
Asheville Police Dept., Asheville, NC
2009-06-09

May God Bless Officer Sigler, his family, and fellow officers. Thank you for your service Sir, you will never be forgotten.

Police Officer
Ohio
2009-06-09