Too often
lost in the rancor and bitterness of police shootings of unarmed men
Is that the
thin Blue Line puts its members’ lives on the line again and again
If not so
threatened they also rise to the occasion to protect and serve
Sometimes
with or without the accolades and gratitude they deserve
Case in point
occurred on early Thanksgiving morn at around 2:00 a.m.
In the town
of Newburgh where Mother Nature a six inch snow fall had just condemned
But boys
will be boys and what better to way to celebrate the fresh snow
But rather
outside to do what boys do best to a
site for a snow fort to go
They never
returned and the police were called who started a search in the freezing cold
While a
distraught mother could feel the chill of desperation begin to enfold
Combing the
neighborhood most likely wet and chilled themselves two officers had the sense
the boys were near
But with
each passing minute their deaths was a growing fear
Officer Rola
a seven year vet saw a shovel in the snow and faint small foot prints near in a snow bank 8 feet high
Like a man
possessed he began to dig hoping against all hope that if the boys were buried
they had not died
One shovel was
not enough and soon there were 10 neighbors roused from their beds
Digging like
madmen to bring to the site not the coroner but rescue instead
Finally a
boot attached to a foot that twitched and moved
Quickly more
shovelfuls and from their icy tomb two boys alive were removed
An air pocket
formed when a snow plow collapsed their fort kept them alive
And quick
thinking a hunch by two officers enabled them to survive
Along with
neighbors coming out into the wintery night
A great
example about what this nation can do right
© November 29, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka
the Alaskanpoet
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