Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Lieutenant Donald Heath Meyer

Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Oklahoma

End of Watch Monday, July 24, 2017

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Reflections for Lieutenant Donald Heath Meyer

May the good lord welcome you with open arms, for you have done your job well.

Chaplain Douglas J. Maykowski
Fraternal Order Of Police Lodge #187 Mt. Clemens Michigan.

July 26, 2017

Final Salute Lieutenant Meyer, thank you for your service. You are a hero. Rest peacefully in the presence of God. We are praying for the family and fellow officers.

Former Patrol Sergeant
Johnny Allison
Wylie TX Police Dept

July 26, 2017

Lt. Meyer, I will pray for the repose of your soul and for consolation for your family. May our good Lord immerse you and them in His Divine Mercy. Thank you for your selfless service.

Jess Espinosa
Civilian

July 26, 2017

May God welcome you with open arms and hold your family in his embrace. My respect Sir.

State Trooper D Osborne
Tennessee Highway Patrol

July 26, 2017

RIP Lt. Meyer. Thank you for your dedicated years of service and sacrifice to LE. May God be with your Family and all LE.

Former Trooper Ken R. Bays
Virginia State Police

July 26, 2017

Thank you for your service. My thoughts and prayers are with the Meyer Family and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
R.I.P. Lt. Meyer.

Wm Jean-Paul Rochat
Swiss Army, MP, Trafic & Escort Unit

July 26, 2017

Godspeed LT. Thank you for your service. Rest easy, prayers for your family and the rest of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Lieutenant Robert "Daniel" Ashcraft
Bureau of Indian Affairs Wind River Agency

July 25, 2017

Rest in peace.

Lt. Jim Russo

July 25, 2017

God bless the Meyer family

Chaplain Marie McGaha
Church On The Rock

July 25, 2017

Rest In Peace Brother.

Det.Andreoli
NYPD-Retired

July 25, 2017

Very sad. Rest in Peace Brother.

Corporal B.P. Sullivan (Ret)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

July 25, 2017

Rest in peace Brother, Thank you for your service, You won't be forgotten.

Blessed are the peacemakers: For they shall be called the children of God.

Matthew 5:9

Jerry Matalone #8046 (Retired)
Des Moines Iowa Police Department

July 25, 2017

Rest easy Brother. Prayers for family, friends and coworkers.

Career Officer (Ret.) Victor Agosto
Chesterfield County Police (Va.)

July 25, 2017

For Highway Patrol Lieutenant D. Heath Meyers:

The duties of the law-officer on patrol are varied and many. The pursuit of violators at high speed, though criticized by many as often excessive, is a situation demanding discipline when considering high traffic and myriad contingencies. That said, the individual law-officer's job is fraught with decisions made on the spot. It is unfair to second-guess any situation when not involved. Indeed our training is for this very reason.
Cries for change are loud - but these situations will forever continue to occur.

We regret that Heath would lose his life in this horrific unfolding of events, but the nature of our very duty is to apprehend and arrest. Every real cop knows our risks and we take them - a hero when we succeed and a rash of mostly unfair criticism when we fail. We are law-officers and stand apart from the faint-hearted.

Heath stands a hero in our eyes - forever. The law-officers involved are sure to suffer the pangs of redefining the situation for sure, but we all have taken that next step to live-up to our own and other's expectations as carefully as we can. What happens afterward is simply the nature and fiber of our job. We accept it. We act.

We pray for Heath's family, co-workers, friends and all who care about him. May they be ready to reach-out in support of one another.

We are proud to render Lt. D. Heath Meyer, a soldier-of-the-law, a proud and final salute.

Cpl./DetSgt. Ralph D. Fiorenza, (Ret.)
PA State Police/Lake County (FL) SO

July 25, 2017

Rest In Peace Brother. Thoughts and prayers to your family and department.

Officer Mike Robinson, (Ret)
City of Upland, CA

July 25, 2017

Go easy LT. you've mentored many fine men and women who will take it from here. Your wife and girls are in fine hands.

Patrolman Andrew Peck
Chickasha Police Department

July 25, 2017

Rest In Peace Lt Meyer

Correctional Officer Ca (Ret) Eric Perry
Californa Dept of Corrections

July 25, 2017

Thank you, Hero. He will take it from here.

Trooper Maxwell Schrader
South Dakota Highway Patrol

July 25, 2017

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, REST IN PEACE.

N.J. TROOPER (RETIRED)
NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE

July 25, 2017

Thank you for your service.

Dmytro Goloborodko

July 25, 2017

RIP, prayers for the family.

Sgt. Ron Cromer
Martin Co. Sheriff's Office

July 25, 2017

Rest In Peace my brother. My prayers to your family, friends and fellow Troopers. You made the ultimate sacrifice and will never be forgotten. Godspeed Trooper!

Trooper (Retired) Travis Qualls
Arizona Highway Patrol

July 25, 2017

Let. Meyer,
May you rest in Heavenly Peace. May your family be forever watched over and blessed. May your friends and colleagues find comfort. Please watch over us from on high.
We will see you again dear Sir.
Thank you for your service. I will never forget your sacrifice or the sacrifice of your family.
Greater Love Hath No Man....
Prayers for all involved.

Kristi
Surviving Daughter of Special Agent J. Robert Porter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
E.O.W. 8/9/79

July 25, 2017

Rest In Peace Lt. Meyer...
God Bless your Family & Thank you for your Service...
Never Forgotten...

Det. John Gramak
Lynden P.D.

July 25, 2017

Rest in peace my Oklahoma brother, we have the watch now. Thank you for your service, you will be missed by all. You have been an example to all of us in staying in the fight and not giving in, an inspiration to all behind the thin blue line. We thank you for the example and the bar you have set and didn't even know it. God bless the family, friends, and co-workers of Lt Heath Meyer during this time of tragic and sudden loss. We mourn your death and grieve your passing but we salute you, your family, and your OHP brothers in this time of pain.

Deputy Donnie Meaders
Seminole County (OK) S.O.

July 25, 2017

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