Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

It has been 2 years since you were called away from duty. I know your family and close friends think of you every day. The love for you that they have in their broken hearts will never die as long as they walk this earth. Keep watch over them and protect them.

"Always in our Hearts
Always in our Words
Forever Young
Forever Blue
Our Guardian Angel"

Bob Gordon, father of fallen officer Michael P. Gordon, EOW: 8/8/04

Bob Gordon

October 30, 2005

I CANT BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN 2 YEARS SINCE YOUR ACCIDENT. IT SEEMS LIKE JUST
YESTERDAY YOU WERE HERE JOKING AND PICKING ON US. IF ONLY YOU WERE HERE TO DO THAT NOW. WE MISS YOU SO MUCH AND I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERY DAY. KEEP WATCHING OVER US. LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH!

DENISE
SISTER

October 10, 2005

hey Greg!

I miss you so much, it seems like I'm always saying to myself "wow, Greg used to say that, or pick on me about that" You drove me crazy when you used to tease me but I wish you were still here to tease me all the time. I was flipping through pictures the other day and I found some of our marsh-mellow fight and I couldnt stop smiling and laughing because only you would start a marsh-mellow fight in the house! ...I wish you were here to come to some of my volleyball games, we are 12-1 and we are leaving for state on wednesday! i love you and miss you so much as well as everyone else!

p.s.-watch over me and willbo as we start driving...scary huh?

-garyn

October 3, 2005

Hi Greggy-Poo!

I can't believe it has been two years ago today since the accident.

Andi is having a real hard time.

We all miss you so much. We will never be the same without you here with us.

Everytime I cut your Dad's hair I think about you telling me to "Cut it thick this time, Mama". I wish so very much I could cut your hair again.

I love you more than you will ever know.

Mom

Liz Medlin ? Mom

September 25, 2005

Greg,
You are still missed as if it were just yesterday. You will never know what this has done to my life. I love you more and more every day.

I wish I could tell every parent how important it is to tell their children daily how much they are loved and how important they are to them.

The worst time of all is the first thought of you every day. It's just like it just happened. I don't think that feeling will ever go away.

I still love you dearly and miss you more than I could ever imagine.

Love,
Mom

Liz Medlin/Mother

September 6, 2005

LOVE YOU LOTS & LOTS!!!!
DENISE

SISTER

July 26, 2005

IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE WRITEN TO YOU MY COMPUTER HAS BEEN ACTING UP.
WHEN ME & TRA GO DOWN YOUR ROAD, IF I'M NOT CRYING I AM ALWAYS TALKING TO YOU GREG. I DO MISS YOU ALOT AND LOVE YOU SO MUCH. LOVE YOU, TRACEY

TRACEY BUSY / SISTER

June 29, 2005

LOVE YOU & MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH.NOT A DAY GOES BY THAT I DONT THINK OF YOU & WISH YOU WERE HERE WITH US.

DENISE WOODS/SISTER

June 28, 2005

I love you, Baby!

Liz Medlin / Mom

June 15, 2005

Greg,
It has been a long time since I have written you. I just want you and all of your family to know that I still miss you very much and think of you everyday.
The girls are getting to be such wonderful little ladies, you should be very proud of them.
Still miss you

Jennifer Thurmond
OLIVE BRANCH POLICE DEPT former desoto county dispatcher

June 5, 2005

Hey Uncle Greg, i just wanted to tell you Happy Birthday. I just wanted to tell you i got my permit. Watch over me and keep us safe. I love you very much and so do the rest of us.

Will Woods(nephew)

May 24, 2005

HAPPY 33 BIRTHDAY!!!!. WE MISSED YOU DEARLY ON YOUR BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY. WE DID CELEBRATE THOUGH. WE HAD YOUR FAVORITE- CREAMED TACOS & ICE CREAM CAKE. IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME WITHOUT YOU HERE THOUGH. I FORGOT TO TELL YOU THAT WILL GOT HIS DRIVERS PERMIT. THAT'S ALMOST AS SCARY AS WHEN YOU GOT YOURS. I TOLD THEM AT THE SHERIFFS OFFICE TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HIM. YOU WATCH OVER HIM TOO. LOVE YOU SO MUCH. KEEP WATCHING OVER US & PROTECTING US ALL FROM UP ABOVE.

LOVE YOU ALWAYS!
DENISE/SISTER

DENISE/SISTER

May 23, 2005

Hi Baby,

We are leaving Thursday morning for D.C. to honor you and other fallen police officers. You don't know how proud I am that I am your mom. I just wish I had told you more often when you were with us.

I missed you so very much on Mother's Day and my birthday. I could just hear you teasing me about being an old woman.

I love you so much, sweety!!

Mom

Liz Medlin / Mom

May 10, 2005

It's been a while since I've left a message & not much has changed. I still
miss you more than ever & think about you every day. Keep watching over us & protecting us from up above. I love you so much!

Denise/Sister

April 26, 2005

A COP ON THE TAKE

First he takes....the oath!
(Now look at what else he takes)

He takes ... it in stride when people call him pig.

He takes ... his lousy paycheck realizing he'll never be rich.

He takes ... a second job sometimes to make ends meet and support his family.

He takes ... time to stop and talk to children.

He takes ... your verbal abuse while giving you a ticket you really deserve.

He takes ... on creeps you would be afraid to even look at.

He takes ... time away from his family to keep you safe.

He takes ... your injured child to the to the hospital.

He takes ... the graveyard shift without complaint because it's his turn.

He takes ... his life into his hands daily.

He takes ... you home when your car breaks down.

He takes ... time to expalin why both your headlights have to work.

He takes ... the job no one else wants, telling you a loved one has died.

He takes ... criminals to jail.

He takes ... in sights that would make you cry. (Sometimes he cries too, but he takes it anyway because someone has to)

He takes ... memories to bed each night that you couldn't bear for even one day.

He takes ... time to explain to his family why he can't make the ball game his child is in and why he has to work on the holidays when other parents are off.

SOMETIMES HE TAKES A BULLETT...

And, yes, occasionally he may take a free cup of coffee.

If he is lucky he takes retirement.

Then one day he pays for all he has taken, and God takes him.

Author Unknown

Liz Medlin / Mom

April 12, 2005

Hi Baby,
I still can't believe you are not here with us. No matter what we do in honor of you, it is still not enough. I need to just hold your face, hands, feet...to give you a BIG hug and soft kiss. I want to hear your voice. I need you. It's that simple!

Selfish as this seems, I know GOD and I know you are in a better place. I have to believe you or another greater being were watching over me in Atlanta,I was just two blocks over from the shootings, then today I was working in probably the worst part of my home town and on this small church sign it read "DEATH IS NOT A PERIOD, ONLY A COMMA"(wow)Then last night I drove everyone crazy with my sad self. I came across an old-yellowish paper that almost sounds like a poem or lyrics to a song in your drawer; I read it to your Mom last night and we both agreed that only one or two lines sounded familar. I am too emotional to post it now. Maybee tonight I'll get myself together. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

I LOVE YOU SWEETIE,
Shannon ~ girlfriend

shannon
girlfriend

March 30, 2005

Happy Easter-I know I'm a couple of days late. Easter was really hard, Mom had a really hard time with you not being here. We all miss you so much Greg. Sometimes it seems like just yesterday you were aggravating the mess out of me and others it seems like so long ago. I miss you so much, and I know everyone else does as well-watch over us!

-Garyn

March 29, 2005

Do believe I'll never leave you
Always I'll be in your heart.
Don't forget my soul is near you,
And so we'll never be apart.


As the days come and go and the world moves on, I know your still here, you'll never be gone.

On the night the Angel came and took your hand, We cried as you left for an unknown land.
But Heaven rejoiced as you came into sight, For your soul was a diamond, shining so bright!

Shannon "Medlin" Price

March 19, 2005

Dear Medlin family,
Early last year I met you at the race track in West Memphis. They were honoring Greg and Mike and some other fallen officers. I just wanted to let you know that I think of you often. I'm in Southaven a lot and I see the car with the memorial sticker on it. I thought I was the only one who did that!! I had one made up for Mike and it's on the back of my truck. Even if it's just for a second, it's good to know that people see our stickers and are aware of our blue angel.
I hope their has been some healing for all of you. I will always have you in my thoughts.
-Jennifer

Jennifer Waters
Wife of Mike Waters, West Memphis PD, EOW 9-11-03

March 8, 2005

Shannon,

Thank you for your post. I feel the same way you do. I wish some could understand the heart is not separated into categories. Love is Love. No matter who you are to the person.

line 3 of 1 Cor 13 tells us it does not matter if we possess everything this would offers, we have or are nothing if we don't have love or love others.

My view is we will all be TOGETHER enjoying God's grace in heaven, so why not put the stupidity aside and be together here on earth?

All the ugly feelings don't exist in heaven. Up there we will only know joy, love, and every other tremendous feeling.

I'm sorry you couldn't find us. Try the below, maybe it will help.

Greg is in heaven smiling down on you and his family. I'm very glad to read you will be in DC with his mother. Both of you hold onto each other and your love for Greg. He's with both of you, and everyone else who has him in his heart.

I know her pain must be very deep, along with all of his family. A part of her went when he did, but so did a part of everyone else who loves him. Being a mom myself. I understand the horror and pain of losing your child. We watch them grow first inside us, then from the moment they enter this world. We watch them and the joy they give us just doing the littlest thing.

Mrs. Medlin I'm sincerly sorry you had to join the survivor family and had your Greg ripped from you also.

I hope you have found comfort in other parents who know your pain. I know if you ever had a chance to meet Scott's parents they will try to be as helpful to you as they can. Scott's mother is one of the sweetest people I've ever met.

To all of Greg's family and Shannon. Stay strong, Greg didn't leave, you just cannot see him. He's there whenever you need him.

I like to think they can get around more now. He's there for everyone whenever, where ever they need him, and at the same time.

Hugs to everyone,
Monica
Fiancee Scott Stewart EOW 8-11-02 Detroit

Monmidg
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February 19, 2005

1 corintians 13:4-8

4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends

Officer Medlin thank you for your service and dedication. You will be missed and never forgotten. May your family, girlfriend, and everyone who loves you stay strong in the memories and love you shared with them.

I lost my fiancée, Scott Stewart, in August of 2002. There not a day that goes by without him in my heart and mind. I understand the pain your girlfriend must feel from being ripped from you to soon. The support and love from others who know my pain have helped tremendously.

Shannon, if you ever feel the need to reach out to others who know your pain, please contact me and other s/o’s. A search on yah groups will bring you to us. Just enter the below as it is.

Always remember as long as your heart beats Greg will be with you. He’s there everyday in your heart.

Hugs,
Monica
Fiancee Scott Stewart EOW 8-11-02 Detroit

OfficerDownSignificantOthers

February 16, 2005

Greg
Was looking through some things the other day and found something you gave me and I laughed because I remember how it was given to me, I have a plaque your mother gave to me which stays in my curio and is for all to see. I did not have the pleasure to know you for as long as some but the time I did have was a real blessing for me. Thank you and keep us all safe because I know you are watching all of us down here and probably thinking of a way to play some type of prank on us.

Jeff McCammon

February 15, 2005

GREG,
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MEMORIES YOU PUT IN MY LIFE THE TIME SPENT WITH YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART YOU WERE A DEAR FRIEND AND A GREAT LT. I MISS YOUR JOKES AND THE WAY YOU COULD ALWAYS COULD MAKE ME LAUGH EVEN WHEN THINGS WERE HARD. YOU WILL ALWAYS HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART AND WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. P.S. HEY YOU WON THE BET. LOVE ALWAYS

MICHELLE CAMPER, OBPD/ FORMER DISPATCHER DCSO

michelle camper
obpd/ former dispatch dcso

January 28, 2005

In March of 1996 I begin my interesting employment with the DCSO. I started on second shift with then Lt Dave. To get me out of the lime light I was moved to day shift and begin working with Greg. At this point I had been in this profession for approximately seven years, not knowing the best was coming.
From the start Greg and I became instant friends and partners. Our Lt decided to put us in the same area, not realizing what she was really doing. He and I worked the good ole Olive Branch and the Chateau Ridge area and got to know everyone on a business and friendship level. As everyone knows that once you work with someone for years you just about become one, well this happened all of a sudden.
I remember one saturday, Chief Clayton told us to work extra hard in Chateau Ridge and make some arrest, so we did. I think by the end of the day we had arrested close to ten people, ranging from public drunk to felony possession. That was the best day of my life and it was spent with someone I knew I could count on.
I then transferred to Fugitive and started serving warrants. We were supposed to do as much as possible by ourself , but if Greg was working he went with me, no matter where in the county.
During this time we both were young married men, with daughters of the same age. They would play together and it gave us some time to hang around each other on our days off. My wife, his wife Jeanette and Cliff Mclemore's wife would do the cooking and we would do the partying, just letting off the steam every now and then.
I eventually left DCSO but never lost contact with Greg, even though we were not as close as before we talked often and helped each other out as much as possible.
I remember he and I found out by mistake we were both going through a divorce and we talked often about that and how hard it was going to be with out our daughters around as often.
The last thing I did with Greg was as a supervisor I was called from home to meet investigators in reference to two subjects running form a car stop. When I got there the first word I heard was this big loud voice saying " look who had to get out of bed" and then turn and see that famous grin, made it worthwhile. We stood there for a couple of minutes and of course he told his usual jokes and got back to work.
This is for Greg's daughters: You two had a GREAT dad one that you can be so proud of and one I can say I was so proud to have known.
Greg, I am sure you are the talk up there and one day I will be there with you.
Mr. and Mrs. Medlin, God Bless you Both and you two already know but you had a great son, one everyone was glad to know and miss so much.

God bless you

Brian Bradley
Former Law Enforcement Officer

January 15, 2005

Greg,
I still miss you so very much, you laugh your smile and everything about you. I think about you everyday. I hope you can look down and be happy with how things are going. It is so hard for us all to go on with out you here. You are a wonderful friend and the best Lt every. I love and miss you

JENNIFER THURMOND
OLIVE BRANCH POLICE DEPT former desoto county dispatcher

January 2, 2005