Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Our prayers are with Trooper Gleason's family and friends.
God has another soldier to stand by his side.

Trooper Steve Howell
Oklahoma Highway Patrol

I am not the same, the police community is not the same. Your death will not go in vain. Because of your death, many others will go about their duties more cautiously. Your death will save other lives. R.I.P.

Tpr. P. J. Alston
NYSD - ESD/Albany

Best wishes to the family of Tooper Gleason.

Anonymous

Thank you for your service and sacrifice. We lost Officer Adams in August of 2001. I know the grief and sadness that follows the death of a loved one. May God bless your Family and Department.

Officer Sean Ferrell
Lehi Police, Utah

MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

Tpr. Michael E. Ballow
New York State Police

To Tpr Gleason: You realized our greatest fear. We know it can happen any day, but we still go. Day to day can become routine, but we can never under estimate the cowardice and evil in this world. Your duty will NOT be forgotten! Watch over us Brother.

To Family and Friends: Words cannot relay the sorrow in our hearts for you. The "Long Grey Line" will always be there for you. God Bless You All.

A Member of the Long Grey Line
NYSP

The Policeman stood and faced his god,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shinning.
Just as bright 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 lord i guess i ain't
Because those of us who carry badges
can't always be a saint.
I've had to work on most Sundays
and at times my talk was rough,
and sometimes I've been violent,
because the streets are awfully tough.
But never took a penny,
that wasn't mine to keep........
Though I worked a lot of overtime
when the bills got just too 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 silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod.
As the policeman waited quietly,
For the judgement of his God.
"Step forward now, policeman,
You've borne your burdens well.
Come walk a beat on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in hell."
.........Author Unknown...............

God bless you / RIP Trooper Gleason

Ptlm P.J. Dyring
Corning Police Dept

Trooper Gleason..although I never met you, you will forever be my brother. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Family and friends of Trooper Gleason. God Bless you all.

Trooper Richard M DeLucie
New York State Police

On behalf of the National Drug Interdiction Association, I would like to express my deepest regards and sympathy to the family, friends and fellow officers of Trooper Lawrence P. Gleason. Nobody can ever be prepared for the unthinkable. We will all miss you fallen hero. Rest in peace brother, rest in peace.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
John 15:13

Douglas R. Wright / Board of Directors
National Drug Interdiction Association

Rest in peace my brother. I will keep your family in my prayers. God bless.

Anonymous

Tpr. Gleason, One day I will meet you in Heaven and shake your hand. Together we will look down on the firey hell that your shooter is burning in. God bless you Tpr.

Officer N.R.Brundage
Washigton D.C. Metropoliton Police

ALTHOUGH I NEVER MET YOU TROOPER GLEASON, I KNOW THAT YOU WERE THE BEST. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, YOU WILL BE MISSED BROTHER.

TROOPER M.L. HASAN
NYSP SP HAVERSTRAW

Rest in peace brother.

Anonymous

Another officer who has died from what used to be called a "routine call". From what the news story stated, there was no way that he could have prevented this or protected himself or the female complainant. May they both rest in peace. God bless them both.

Charles E. Perry Lieutenant (Ret)
New York City Police Department

Another hero is now patrolling a beat in Heaven. My prayers are with those who loved him most. May God bless you all.

Brett Roberts, Deputy U.S. Marshal
U.S. Marshals Service

Tpr Gleason paid the ultimate sacrifice for which none of us will ever forget. May God bless his family and may God rest his soul.

Tpr M.A. Fayle
NY State Police

Will it ever stop? Another fine officer is brutally killed; one who is trying to protect and serve the citizens of not only New York, but America. Trooper Gleason our hearts and prayers go out to you and your family and know that your country is behind you and what you stood for. Watch over your fellow troopers, brothers in blue, and our service members who are all fighting the same fight, against all that is evil, for justice and liberty for all.

Cpl Christopher Hislip, USMC
Camp Lejeune, NC Military Police

Trooper Gleason,
You have joined many heroes who have given the ultimate sacrifice. We can never make sense of any tragedy like this except that God has a better place for you. I just found this website a week ago & you you are the second officer that has lost his life since then. My prayers are with your family, friends & co-workers. It is only through prayer that they will make it through & it will still be difficult for them. I lost a man that I spent 10 years of my life with & also dispatched for...Calvin E. Taylor NC Highway Patrol - E.O.W. 10-3-01. While the rest of the world goes on, we want to cry out to God to bring our loved ones back......but honestly, the wouldn't want to leave their new home with God to join the evils on this earth such as the ones who took their lives.
God Bless You,
Denise L. Taylor

TC Denise L. Taylor
NC Highway Patrol

"There is no greater love than this, there is no greater gift that can ever be given, to be willing to die, so another might live, there is no greater love than this!" May God bless you and your family.

Sgt. Michael Fanning
NYPD

Brother, you will never be forgotten. Watch over us...God Bless.

TPR Fred Atkinson Jr.
NYSP-Keeseville

To live on in the hearts of those we leave behind, is not to die.

Rest in Peace.

T/Sergeant Howard E. Madsen
New York State Police

In the night I pray for your embrace,
I close my eyes, I can't escape your face.
You're out of sight, but you will ALWAYS be on my mind.

God bless you Trooper Gleason. God bless your entire family and all of your friends. May God bless the New York State Police. Tpr Gleason we will continue our quest to ensure safety to the people of the State of New York and we will make you proud.

Brother in Gray Tpr Jason A Brewer

Trooper Jason A Brewer
New York State Police

I never knew Larry, But he worked with my cousin Cliff, who is also stationed at Schroon Lake. Cliff said Larry was a real good guy. I'm very sorry for your loss. When a brother officer falls, all of us are deeply saddened. I hope it condoles you somewhat to know that Larry's sacrifice was for a noble cause of the highest honor. Such an event also causes all Troopers whose lives have been touched by this tragic loss to be reminded of the fate that may await us on the next patrol and to steel ourselves in our sworn battle versus evil. God Bless all those who loved Larry. I know that Larry has already been blessed by God and welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Trooper Joseph M Bearor
NYSP - Salem

Rest in peace my brother.

Police Officer
N.Y.P.D.

A letter to a friend that roomed with me at the academy,we sweat, studied and laughed together. We wondered if we were going to make it and dreamed of the day that we would be going home, above all we became friends. We were two hunderd and two individuals with one goal, to become a New York State Trooper, so we helped each other out. Trooper Gleason I want to thank you for helping a friend and I Will Miss you.
Good Bye Grayrider see you on the hard-deck

Trooper William L Persinger
NYSP