Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Officer Stewart,
Today is the fifth anniversary of your EOW. As your family and friends remember you today and always, please know that people across the country are pausing to say thank you for your heroism and dedication. You made a difference in the world that will never be forgotten.

Pennsylvania citizen

August 11, 2007

Five years have passed and you have not been forgotten by those that love you dearly. I know that they think of you each morning when they wake and you are the last thought they think of before they go to sleep. You will never be forgotten. Continue to watch over them and protect them from harm. You are a true hero and heroes never die.

Those who we love and lose
Are no longer where they were before.
They are now wherever we are.
(Author Unknown)

Bob Gordon
Father of Michael P. Gordon, EOW: 8/8/04

August 10, 2007

Scotty my man,
How are things? The same ole same ole here. I think of you often and hope that all is well!!! I dread this time of the year, because as you know on todays date, 8-10, my friend and fellow PCSD Deputy, Tim Graham died two years ago and last year I got into a shooting and fight for my life (thanx again for having my back when I needed it!!!). So, needless to say, if I could get rid of August 10th and 11th for good...I would! But I can't so we drive on like a good soldier. I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate all that you give me everyday even though you are not here physically. Take care brother!!! UNT.

Deputy Kurt Dabb
Pima County Sheriff's Dept. Tucson, AZ Friend

August 10, 2007

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."-Pericles

Love you miss you
Mom

August 5, 2007

Scotty,
I just dropped by to say "HI." It has been a while since I left a message for you...if did that everytime I visited..that would be at least one for every day. I just wanted you to know that I was thinking of you. Sarah said to say hello as well.
Kurt

Dep. Kurt Dabb
Friend

July 30, 2007

We had a nice day thinking of you and remembering you with the girls. They still want to go see their Uncle Scotty. Jordan wants to go no matter what else she has going on in her life, she always chooses you.

Hope you enjoyed the girls and all that they do for you at the cemetery. Thanks for making sure we were safe, I am sure you laughed at me all the way to Walmart. Jordan wanted to know why grandma called me "Andrea Lyn" I am sure you know why. I had to laugh, I knew exactly what mom was thinking when she used that phrase!!!! Some things never change.

Wish you were with us. Allen and I are doing a ride tomorrow and we will honor you as we ride. I will have your bright smiling face on my back as usual.

Miss and love you,
Andrea

July 13, 2007

Thinking of you, Happy Birthday.
Love, you

July 12, 2007

Wanted to wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY.We went out to the cemetery, the first thing I noticed was someone cleaned your headstone your friend and helpers do a good job.I would like to thank them, but they do it for you.

I remembered last year Haley wanted a birthday cake so I brought some cupcakes and we sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY, as always Jordan wanted to bring your balloons so we could send them up to you.Jordan,Haley,and Shelby left some flowers.It started to rain so we said our goodbyes.
Andrea and Jordan wore your new shirts, they really look nice.
Miss you each and every day, sure wish you could stop in and say hi and have a good talk.
Miss you, love you
Always in my heart.
Love, Mom

July 12, 2007

Happy Birthday!

I love you,

July 12, 2007

Happy Birthday Scotty!

July 12, 2007

Happy 4th, Scotty

July 4, 2007

Happy 4th! Wish you were here with us.

July 4, 2007

I Love You! I would still say yes. Many changes coming up this year. I wish I had you to lean on - then again, if you were here I wouldn't be going through this.

Love you, Miss you, Can't wait to see you!

Honey Bunny

June 28, 2007

Our 10-year anniversary on this job passed a short time back. I still remember talking to you in the academy on a regular basis so long ago. Your strength in helping me during that first week of beat-down was greatly appreciated (I don't think that I ever actually thanked you for your help). Several of us may not have made it if we had not had your leadership to guide us! I still can't believe that you were the first one (and hopefully, the last) in our group to meet this awful fate. I look at your picture in my locker every day I work as a reminder of those of us who gave the supreme sacrifice, and those of us who might face the ultimate test at any given moment.

You were one of the great ones, in many, many ways. You sacrificed your entire adult life in service of your country in the U.S. Army, then transitioned into civilian life to do what you could to make a difference in the City of Detroit as a police officer.

Those of us who worked and sweated alongside you in the interest of the common good are all better for having had the priviledge to serve with you. You were a model from which all of us had to strive to meet.

We lost touch, by and large, after the police academy, but the friendship we sparked during that time never faded. I wish I'd been there with you on that fateful day 5 years ago. We would have taken that animal down together, or I would have been honored to fall beside you as your partner.

The world is a lesser place without you.

Respectfully,
One of your brothers in blue

P.O.

June 15, 2007

Miss you, Love you

Mom

June 5, 2007

I met up with your sister this weekend for the law ride in DC. While she may not know it, her inviting me made me feel like a part of the week more so than I had before. Your neice, brother in law, and mom were all there too, as you could see. I just wanted to say you are definitely not forgotten, and that is apparent thorugh the actions of those who loved you. God bless, Scott.

Katie Fisher

May 17, 2007

Scotty,
I was thinking of you today...Well, I do most days. Thanks for keeping an eye on me and I hope all is well. Sarah says "HI"!!!

Dep. Kurt Dabb
Pima County Sheriff's Dept. Tucson, AZ Friend

April 28, 2007

when I look to the sky something tells me you're here with me
And you make everything alright
And when I feel like I'm lost something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way when you are here.
Instead it just feels like it is impossible to fly
But with you I can spread my wings
to see me over everything that life may send me
When I am hoping it won't pass me by


i love you
jordan

jordan
niece

April 16, 2007

As soft winds sweep away the days
I look back on life through a haze.
Remember playgrounds, parks and friends,
In childlike gaze that never ends.
The laughter in a game of catch,
Shall memory ever attach...
To innocence in youthful eyes,
Catching the ball to your surprise.

I recall my first bike, first wreck,
Who picked me up, said, "What the heck?"
Convinced me to give one more try,
While, knees skinned, I forgot to cry.
Just the joy knowing he was there,
Making him proud my only care.
There was nothing I couldn't do,
My heart held fast that to be true.

Though pre-teen years were kind of rough,
I sure wasn't too big or tough.
You taught me to defend what's right
And never back down from a fight.
So I learned the hard way to stand,
Still, with each lump, I found your hand.
Drawing from you an inner strength,
And stubborn pride of equal length.

But there the line of fate was drawn,
As though I blinked and you were gone.
I found myself facing the sun,
Not man, not boy,an uncleless, one.
Eyes blinded by a void inside,
I could not live that you had died.
Alas finding it to be true,
I could do nothing without you.

Please, scotty, today just hear my call,
I'm sorry that I dropped the ball.
My life is wrecked, my knees are skinned,
My emotions undisciplined.
I can't get up although I try,
Please don't be upset if I cry.
Though I can't fight what I can't see,
Please, uncle scotty, say you're still proud of me.

jordan
niece

April 16, 2007

He talked to her of the great waste of years between then and now. A long time gone. And it was pointless, he said, to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now.

You could grieve endlessly for the loss of time and for the damage done therein. For the dead, and for your own self.

But what the wisdom of the ages says is that we do well not to grieve on and on. And those old ones knew a thing or two and had some truth to tell, Inman said, for you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing.

What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you.

Cold Mountain

I read this and thought about the past almost 5 years. I miss you more than anyone can imagine. I grieve for you and the life we had and the life we could have had, but that grief has become my scars - permanently marking me as I go on. Sink or Swim, right. I'm still swimming.

I'll see you when I stop,



When I get where I'm going
On the far side of the sky
The first thing that I'm gonna do
Is spread my wings and fly

I'm gonna land beside a lion
And run my fingers through his mane
Or I might find out what it's like
To ride a drop of rain


Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
I will shed the sins and struggles
I have carried all these years
And I'll leave my heart wide open
I will love and have no fear
Yeah when I get where I'm going
Don't cry for me down here

I'm gonna walk with my love
And he'll match me step for step
And I'll tell him how I missed him
Every minute since he left
Then I'll hug his neck



So much pain and so much darkness
In this world we stumble through
All these questions I can't answer
So much work to do

But when I get where I'm going
And I see my maker's face
I'll stand forever in the light
Of his amazing grace

Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears

I will love and have no fear
When I get where I'm going
Yeah when I get where I'm going


Love you always,
Honey Bunny

April 13, 2007

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal.
Love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Happy Easter, Scotty.
Always in my heart.
Love,
Mom

Audrey Stewart

April 7, 2007

Not much to say,

I love you,
Thinking of you always,

See you soon,

I hope you found her up there - she always liked you, just like the rest of them. (They still say your name by accident - it's bittersweet, I like it, but it also hurts) I don't know what's worse watching the one you love die slowly or having him taken suddenly. Death is so hard, but it is the only sure thing in life.

I guess I found somthing to say! :-)

Love you,

March 27, 2007

Are you smiling????? I am sure you would approve, there is a happiness there that has been gone for a long time, it is nice to see it back. I am sure you had something to do with it!!!!!!

February 16, 2007

Happy Valentine's Day :-)

I love you,

Monica

February 14, 2007

Happy Anniversary

I will always remember this day

I love you,

Honey Bunny

February 1, 2007