Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

"...to promote and regulate the use of the...national parks...which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

-Organic Act, 16 USC, 1916

YOU DID SO TO THE END...NEVER FORGOTTEN

NPS Seasonal Law Enforcement Academy - 2003

Rangley, Colorado

September 16, 2004

To the family, friends and fellow park rangers of Suzi Roberts. Please know that we hold you close in our hearts and that we are thinking of you during this difficult time.

The family of Dave Grant EOW 5/31/04
Tuolumne Co. Sheriff's Dept.

September 15, 2004

May God Bless you,your Family and co-workers during this difficult time.

NJ PO
RPD

September 15, 2004

I wish to express my deepest sympathy to the Roberts Family and the Park Rangers & staff of the National Park Service over the tragic loss of Park Ranger Suzanne Roberts. Once again a sister officer has beeen taken from the thin blue line. May God bless the Roberts Family and the Park Rangers & staff of the National Park Service during this very sad time. May our sister Suzi rest in peace. Suzi will now patrol the streets of Heaven with St. Michael and his angels. Never forget the fallen hero!

Ofcr. Dan Winger
LBCCPD, Ret.

September 15, 2004

Rest in Peace.

NPS Volunteer Chris Chappell
National Park Service

September 15, 2004

Rest in peace. You will never be forgotten.

Ashley Drury
Clare, Michigan

September 15, 2004

Today the National Park Service mourns as we lose another fine ranger and hero. My deepest sympathy to the family, friends and co-workers of US Ranger Roberts. May the Lord give you strength and bless each of you during this time.
What was also stated in the report we received was that you were also an active member in the community. A woman who would volunteer time with special needs kids. Thank you for always giving yourself in all you did.
Rest in peace for your watch here is over; walk in heavens beat and guide us all to protect and serve others safely.

US Ranger Catroppa
National Park Service Kennesaw GA

September 15, 2004

Ranger Roberts sacrifice has touched us all here on Maui. She died attempting to make a road safe for the public. To her coworkers and family my heart and prayers are with you. Suzi, you will hold a special place in our hearts.

Arza Brown
Chaplain

Chaplain Arza E. Brown
Maui Police Dept.

September 15, 2004

God Bless You Ranger Roberts!!!!

Tonya Stephenson, Private Citizen
Delaware County, PA

September 15, 2004

God Bless You Ranger Roberts!!!!

Tonya Stephenson, Private Citizen
Delaware County, PA

September 15, 2004

“REMEMBER ME”
Law enforcement officers are, indeed, a special breed of people. Ask anyone on the street and they will tell you that they would not have our jobs for anything in the world. It takes something special to do what we do and at the same time be able to even contemplate retirement. We try to be optimists. Unfortunately, there are a few of us who will never make that date with retirement. By the very nature of our job, we are at risk everyday of losing our lives, either at the hand of some deranged individual or in some other situation that we, by virtue of our occupation, may be unable to avoid. Some people have recognized the hazardous duties we involve ourselves in, the risks we take, and the pride we take in accomplishing that job. There is National Law Enforcement Week, dedicated to us who gladly accept the responsibility of protecting the citizens in our respective jurisdictions. National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Day is dedicated to those who gave their lives in the line of duty. These are but a two examples of remembrances specifically for law enforcement personnel. Remembrances that come but once a year. We should remind fellow officers of another type of remembrance, one that will last a lifetime. Sooner or later, a doctor will pronounce us dead. It is inevitable. Regardless of whatever happens, death is the end we will all have to face.
“IT IS IN DEATH THAT WE CAN LIVE FOREVER”
This was written by an unknown author.

Jim Moore
New Orleans PD, Retired

September 15, 2004

My heart and prayers are with the family, friends and coworkers of Ranger Roberts. God bless you all and may you find strength in God and each other in this terrible time of loss.

Deb Azure
Mother of Deputy Renee Danell Azure
EOW 08/06/02

September 15, 2004

May GOD bless your family and friends at this terrible time. Rest in peace.

Shirley Roberts
Aunt of Fallen Officer John Logan EOW-March 14, 2004

September 15, 2004

On behalf of the men and women who serve and work for the Georgia Perimeter College Police Department, our thoughts and prayers are with Ranger Suzanne Roberts' family, friends, and co-workers with the United States Department of the Interior - Nation Park Service (Police).

Officer Johns
Georgia Perimeter College Police Department

September 15, 2004

It doesn't matter if we lose them in a hail of bullets or in a rockfall. Those who give their lives in the service of others will never be forgotten as long as there are others wearing 'the blue'. Rest in Peace Suzi. With love and sympathy to your family and loved ones.

a colleague from the UK

September 15, 2004

Our thoughts and prayers are with Ranger Roberts' family and friends. This was a very tragic accident. You will not be forgotten. Thank you for your service. Rest in peace Ranger Roberts.

Captain Robert W. Cannon; Retired
Vermilion County, Illinois Sheriff's Department

September 15, 2004

Pride Integrity and Guts

Some of you may know my face, but not my name. Most of you have seen me around the city and some have even met me, but not always under the best of circumstances. Some of you have even spoken to me on the phone, when you called me while I was working.

Most of you have an opinion on how my job should be done, but would never take my job if it was the last one on earth. And some of you who don't even know me, hate me because of my job. But when I go to my job, I go to make a difference and so I can fight what everyone else fears.

When most would be running away from danger, my job requires me to run towards it. I do this in the hopes of making a difference for someone else I don't even know. Most people say I make too much money, because my pay is published in the newspaper. But don't think twice about hearing about another sports player sign a 20 million dollar contract for 6 months a year of playing a "game."

Since my job's base pay isn't the best I must work extra to pay the bills. Including working extra shifts on holidays, and pick up side work at construction sites as well on my days off, most still complain thinking I am greedy, but don't they realize that I to must pay taxes, have a mortgage car payments and kids in collage as well?

Don't they understand that I am not paid for what I do, but for what I am willing to do for them? After all how can you properly compensate someone to risk their own life and face danger everyday they go to work?

And when I go to work I am punched, kicked, spit on and called every name in the book for doing my job. And every night I leave my house to go to work I realize I may not come back home in the morning. Because when I go to work I can be stabbed, shot, drown, fall, be electrocuted, or die in a car accident rushing to help you.

My job also requires me to carry special "tools" to help me do my job. Sometimes even while doing my job I have to defend myself from someone attacking me. Although, the newspapers will report to you that I "beat someone down", and not that I defended myself from an attack.

While at work I must also carry a gun to protect you, but should I have to use it, the media reports to you that I "gunned someone down" or that I "shot and killed" somebody, and not that I defended myself. Don't they realize that I shoot to live and never to kill?

Also when I go to work I wrap a protective vest around me to help keep me safe through my shift. I use this vest so that I will be allowed to live to the end of my work day. And hope and pray that should something bad happen that this vest helps keep me alive so that I will be allowed to see my children grow.

When I go to my job, I will see more pain, sorrow, agony, death and destruction in one month than most of you will see in an entire lifetime.


And to the ones who don't know me, I unforunetly will meet most of you at the worst times in your life.

You often will call me to come help you out with a problem. But if you have a really big problem you can get me at a special 3 digit number and me and my coworkers will race to your house, just to help you no questions asked. All you have to do is call and we will be there for you, no matter what time, day, night or holiday, rain shine or blizzard.

Sometimes my job also requires me to deliver lectures, babies and even bad news. I am also the one required to ring your doorbell in the middle of the night, swallow hard and advise you that a loved one will not be coming home tonight, then I spend the rest of my shift wondering why I ever took such a job.

Some people even refer to me as a "pig," but when I hear that word called to me or one of my coworkers I think of Pride, Integrity and Guts, which everyone in my profession needs to do this job.

Me and my coworkers must be able to have muscles of steel, have a sense of humor and put ourselves into dangerous situations and face danger head on all in a days work.

We must act in a second and make a decision in the blink of an eye, and spend the rest of our life hoping we made the right choice in that split second. If not we can be arrested and charged with breaking a law, be sued for violating someone's rights, or end up with even a worse fate.

My job requires me to take an oath to be their and to risk my life to protect you. And it is an oath that me and my fellow coworkers have taken and is one that we will not break.

What, you ask is my job, I am your local police officer. And what do I ask in return of doing all this and risking my life for you, nothing at all because it is my job and my hope, of being the one who makes the difference.

Officer David Carroll
Choctaw Oklahoma

September 15, 2004