PROJECT BLUE LIGHT

Remember Those Who Made The Ultimate Sacrifice; Support Those Who Continue To Protect And Serve

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Lou Thurston 757-928-4290 | thurstonlb@nngov.com

2010 Dec 09

The Newport News Police Department is joining the national grief support organization, COPS (Concerns of Police Survivors), in asking citizens and law enforcement agencies nationwide to support Project Blue Light during the holiday season. During the holidays, citizens are asked to include at least one blue light in holiday decorations in honor of law enforcement officers who have given their lives in the line of duty and to show support and appreciation to those officers who continue to put their lives on the line every day.

Several years ago, Mrs. Dolly Craig, the surviving mother-in-law of Daniel Gleason, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police officer killed in the line of duty in 1986, sent her holiday message to the COPS National Office. Her daughter Pam, the surviving widow of Officer Gleason, had been killed in a car accident in August 1988, before the holiday season. Dolly wrote, “This holiday I’m putting two blue lights in my living room window. One is for Dan and the other is for Pam, who believed so much in the COPS Organization.”

Dolly Craig is now deceased as well, but her idea lives on. Project Blue Light now burns bright in the hearts of the nearly 10,000 surviving families who comprise COPS, a national non-profit organization that assists the surviving families of officers killed in the line of duty as they rebuild their shattered lives.

The Newport News Police Department, along with COPS, is asking citizens and law enforcement agencies nationwide to support Project Blue Light during the holiday season. As they are working the streets this holiday season, let your Blue Light show law enforcement everywhere that someone cares.

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