Funeral for Four Heroes
Today in Tacoma unprecedented ten’s of thousands of police officers from all over the USA, Canada, and overseas showed up for the funeral for the four slain police officers from the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood. Over 20,000 police officers arrived for the funeral. 1,000 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers dressed in their red uniforms formed a massive sea of red. Over 100 officers attended from New York, and another 100 from Boston. All hotels in Tacoma were booked full and the overflow officers were invited into the homes of local officers. Mc Chord air force base offered their base as a staging area for over 1,000 police vehicles that would form a procession from Lakewood to the Tacoma Dome. An amazing 3,000 vehicles showed up from all over the usa and the procession took four hours to wind their way to the Tacoma Dome with the streets lined with thousands of folks waving American flags along the way...All in weather that was sunny but around 20f degrees. The above picture shows the procession as they picked up the four white hearses in Lakewood. I’ll give you the rest of the report in pictures as follows...
3,000 police vehicles staged at Mc Chord
Air Force Base as the procession starts
The local TV coverage of the funeral lasted
for over six hours.
Notice the faces as the officers passed by...
The funeral procession was 10 miles long and took four hours
to get all the vehicles to the Tacoma Dome
Arriving at the Tacoma Dome
Moving the caskets inside
Royal Canadian Mounted Police march
from the parking area in a sea of red
At ease before the start of the march
Inside the Tacoma Dome
Police officer badges left from all over the USA
Inside ~ thank you Canada for your respect, and also
to all the other officers from over 275 cities who
attended from all over the USA ~ thank you
This was a funeral that not only honored the memory and
courage of the 4 fallen officers, but to honor all law
enforcement officers, firemen, paramedics, and
military police from the whole USA who
serve to protect us.
Thank you and god bless.
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