Karhlton Moore, executive director of the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, paid special tribute and honored law enforcement officers for their service to their communities and country over self during the 48th annual Logan County Law Enforcement Memorial hosted Saturday by the Fraternal Order of Police Hi-Point Lodge 60 at the Holland Theatre.
ABOVE: Officers with the Logan County Law Enforcement Honor Guard fire a 21-gun salute outside the Holland Theatre at the conclusion of the annual Law Enforcement Memorial on Saturday. ALSO PICTURED IN MONDAY’S EXAMINER: Featured speaker Kahrlton Moore, executive director of the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, addresses the group. AND: Bellefontaine Police Officer Michael Morgan, president of the Hi-Point Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 60, introduces the program beneath a projected fallen officer artwork. (EXAMINER PHOTOS | REUBEN MEES)
The featured speaker at the annual ceremony that kicks off Police Memorial Week, May 13 through 19, likened the job of police officers to that of the courageous “man in the arena,” quoting Theodore Roosevelt’s speech with the same title from 1910.
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause,” he said.
“Who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
These character traits of persevering through difficulties and never giving up displayed by law enforcement officers is “a testament about what is best about our country,” Moore said.
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