“We come to pay our last respects to the member of the Baltimore Police Department who has answered his last call on earth. He has gone out on his last assignment of duty. He has been promoted to a BLUE ANGEL and we gather to honor his memory. We shall never be the same because we have known him and we are affected by everyone whom he know. So, because we have known and because he has served in the dangerous, and the enforcement of law, as fellow police officers, we take time amid the busy rush of this world to stand quietly for these moments and express the sadness in our hearts and by our presence here, show our real sense of loss and our determination that he shall not be forgotten.

We gather here to salute as a real Officer and a real Gentleman, this comrade of our, who has left us. We petition the King of Kings, to write all his faults in the sand so that the wind can blow them away.

Let us pray: Our Father, we Pray that in this hour of our need, thou shall be very near. May thy blessing of helpfulness be with everyone that mourns. Hold in the arms of Your Infinite love, the relatives and family of our departed comrade and as we are reminded by this occasion of the shortness of life and the need for our doing now that which we are to do, we ask that Thou wilt help us to be better men and officers. May Thou blessing surround and keep us all. AMEN

And now, would every police officer stand at attention in silence for a moment as we salute once more, and for the last time, this departed member of our agency.