Current Issue - Deputy Sheriffs' Association of San Diego County

For questions, please call
Officer Adam Young
760-468-0609
or
Paula Melikian
760-931-2131
at Carlsbad Police Department
There is no pre-registration or
registration fee to run.
Carlsbad Blvd.
Cannon
Park
Avenida
Encinas
Parking
at WestMart
Center
Cannon Rd.
Sponsored by
Carlsbad Police Department
22nd ANNUAL SAN DIEGO COUNTY
PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL RUN
Saturday, May 18, 2013
I-5
You and your family are invited to participate in the
22nd Annual Peace Officers Memorial Run on
Saturday, May 18, at 9 a.m.
This event is being held in conjunction
with Peace Officers Memorial Week.
The run is not a race but a run to
honor those peace officers who have
died on duty.
The run will start at Cannon Park
located at the corner of Carlsbad Blvd.
(Hwy 101) and Cannon Rd. in
Carlsbad.
The course is a scenic 2.5 miles and follows a course
along the Pacific Ocean. The run is for all levels with
a pace to keep all of the runners together.
Refreshments will be served at the end of the run.
In Memoriam – EOW
Deputy Robert Paris - Stanislaus Co. Sheriff’s Dept
Officer Kenyon Youngstrom – California Highway Patrol
Officer Kevin Tonn - Galt Police Department
Officer Michael Crain - Riverside Police Department
Detective Jeremiah MacKay - San Bernardino Co. Sheriff
Sergeant Loran "Butch" Baker - Santa Cruz Police Dept.
Detective Elizabeth Butler - Santa Cruz Police Dept.
Chaplain’s Corner
by Chaplain Herb Smith
“Lord, who may abide in Thy tent? Who may dwell on Thy holy hill? He who
walks with integrity, works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart.
He does not slander nor does evil to his neighbor, or takes up a reproach
against his friend. He honors those who do right, and swears to his own
hurt and does not change. He will not exploit those he aids or ever take a
bribe. He who acts in this way will never be shaken” (Psalm 15).
The hardest part about living with integrity is being honest with yourself.
It is rather easy and natural to portray an image with the world around
us which would reflect a person very different from whom we truly are.
We cannot succeed indefinitely with such pretense, but with certain
changeups along the way we can keep people guessing and off balance
for some time before the inevitable collapse occurs. But more serious
than all the wasted years of growing character and discovering strength
in authenticity is the deep distrust one cultivates in not ever trusting
himself.
George B. Shaw stated “The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he
is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.” Indeed, a life of
falsehood merely exhibits the delusion that reality can be fabricated with
a presumption of pride and premise of pretense; a Pincer Movement on
ourselves that eventually dissolves all credibility and invalidates our life.
In the end, “Integrity is what we say, what we do, and what we say we do”
(Don Galer), especially to our own deceitful heart.
But integrity can be retrofitted if caught in time. There is the true story of
a rather infamous Chicago attorney during the 1920s by the name of Easy
Eddy. Eddy was Al Capone’s lawyer, who did quite an adept job of keeping
Al out of prison by beating charges of everything from bootlegging to
murder. Capone was not cheap in his remunerations, and kept Eddy and
his young family well endowed. However as time went on, Eddy could
also see the impact and adverse legacy he was having on his little son
whom he loved dearly. Though his son had the best of everything, he
also wanted to teach him right from wrong; to grow up a better man than
himself. For all of his wealth, the two things he desired for his son more
than anything else was a good name and a father’s example to follow.
Eddy realized his lifestyle and his character were mutually exclusive, and
needed to choose either one or the other. Eddy decided to rectify his past
by testifying against Capone. It was ultimately Eddy’s witness in federal
court that put Scarface away for tax evasion. Eddy lost everything, and
was eventually gunned down on a dark and deserted Chicago street.
He died alone, but left his son a legacy of integrity for doing the right
thing in spite of the cost, one he would never lose sight of. It was Eddy’s
most costly gift to a son he desired to inherit a heart of rectitude and
trustworthy stature.
There is another true story from that same city about Lt. Cmdr. Edward
“Butch” O’Hare, after whom Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is
named. On Feb. 20, 1942, Butch was flying his Wildcat on a mission to
protect the U.S.S. Lexington from attack. He and his wingman spotted
9 twin-engine Japanese bombers en route to bomb the carrier. The rest
of Butch’s squadron was too far away to respond, and his wingman’s
guns jammed up. It was either Butch’s plane or nothing, so he dove into
the unsuspecting group with guns blazing, in the course of which he
succeeded in shooting down five of them. Out of ammunition, he began
diving at another to disable it, which he was able to do. Finally the other
U.S. fighters arrived, and the three other bombers scattered. No bomb
attack formulated on the ship.
Butch was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism, cited for “one
of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history
of combat aviation.”
Butch O’Hare went on to
participate in many other
battles and was sadly killed
in action nearly two years
later during the battle for the
Gilbert Islands, accidentally
shot down by another
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