Fifteen Years
- Chicago Police Officer Michael Gordon’s brothers in blue held a ceremony Wednesday to keep his memory alive 15 years after he was killed by a drunken driver while on patrol.
More than 100 Chicago police recruits and dozens of uniformed officers stood at attention outside the city’s police academy in the West Loop as Gordon’s father, Robert Gordon, himself a retired Chicago cop, stepped to the microphone under a nearly cloudless morning sky.
“When you lose your parents, you’re called an orphan. When you lose your wife, you’re called a widower. ... When you lose a child, it’s so horrible we don’t have a name for it,” he said.
Well Mr. Gordon, we suppose (and we mean this with the highest respect) you'd be called "survivors," and the life you and your family have led since that tragic night, dedicated to the men and women of the Chicago Police Department is inspirational. Thank you for that.
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posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
21 Comments:
Roll On Michael Gordon
RIP Brother in Blue
May God bless you Mr. Gordon and your loved ones
Prayers for our brother and his family. For those still serving, stay safe.
It was a beautiful memorial. Rest easy, Michael.
We should Never Forget. Go to police week in Washington D.C. at least once in your career. It will forever change your heart.
Mike, RIP and Airborne All The Way.
Nothing worse than losing a child.
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God bless you Mr.Gordon. Can't imagine and hope to never have to. Thank you for your service.
Nicely put.
May he be resting in peace, sincere prayers to the family.
Survivors. I know. My wife and I both. Combat is not shit compared to being at war with your own emotions.
Survivors, well said SCC, very well said...
God Bless...
God Bless
God Bless our ladies and gentlemen in Blue. And their families.
Killed by someone else that wasn’t supposed to be here in the first place.
Thanks to all that showed up in person or in spirit. Keep him and our entire roll call of heroes in your thoughts and prayers.
Mike was a great guy and he’d be proud of the example his family has set and the lives they’ve lead by helping their community while keeping his memory alive. God Bless the Gordon family and the CPD.
God bless Michael Gordon
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
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