BADGE COLLECTOR: END OF WATCH, REMEMBERING SOME OLD FRIENDS

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

END OF WATCH, REMEMBERING SOME OLD FRIENDS

It has been a couple of years since one of my friends answered his last call. His grand-daughter drew the picture below. I think it is a nice gesture to show the picture in the post so here it is in our 2016 End of Watch posting . It makes a very nice memory.

In addition to this Officer, there are others who have passed away in 2016. They leave us and their FAMLIES behind.

Miss you guys!

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ORIGIN OF MY COLLECTION

1967 was the year of the Newark Riots. My Dad was a Newark Detective near the end of his career; and I was just beginning a career as a Probation Officer. Shortly after the riots my Dad gave me a couple of badges he acquired over the years. They sat around in a desk drawer for a couple of years. Eventually I put them on a shelf - never knowing that this was the beginning of my collection. My father died in 1974 leaving me his retirement detective shield. The word "Retired" had been put in the number panel. He didn't like that and knocked it off. He had the original number put back, but this was absolutely "no work of art." None the less I am proud to have it. It stands today "under glass" in my den along with other items from Newark and other NJ communities. I have been "The" Badge Collector ever since (50+ years).

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