People...the public say that America's armed forces are working, fighting for America's freedom and rights on the front lines. Sadly they are mistaken. The front lines they describe are thousands of miles away.

I remember the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center like it was yesterday...I was there; furthermore I remember the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01...I was there, I had friends that were there...friends who were killed.

But let me digress a litle bit; the people of America enjoy there freedoms. They deserve to sleep at night without the worry that harm will come to there property or families, they are correct! Yet it is NOT the armed forces that grant them these wishes. It is the American Law Enforcement Officer who is working the battle on the war IN America every night and day.

Why then, don't American Law Enforcement Officers get the designation that the armed forces get. After a breif stint in the armd forces; they are Honorably Discharged, forever recognized as soldiers and Veterans. Cops are simply retired, as if we did not experience any type of combat; as if we did not see close friends die, as if we did not put our lives and the comfort and futures of our families on the lne every time we went to work.

If cops are hurt or disabled or even killed in the line of duty; this should be of a matter of national interest and broadcast on national news, not the tiny blurb it gets on the local news. America does not know the sacrifices we make every day of every year because they are not informed.

If we are disabled or killed in the line of duty, we should get the same recognition that the men and women who bravely work our armed forces get. There are no disabled police benefits for injured law enforcers...there are no hospitals that will be there for the injured police veterans.

Yet we go out and fight the war within our borders everyday. We number in the hundreds of thousands, it is time that we informed America the sacrifices we make every day and night so that they may sleep safely in their beds at night. Please don't get me wrong, I am not bitter, I just don't approve of the way our brave men and women are reported upon when they make a great sacrifice...or the ultimate sacrifice. Why is it that someone who is overseas and suffers serious injury or death, gets reported on, and even those news "stories" begin to slide on the back pages of our newspapers. But there is help for their children, their families and themselves if they are alive.

IT IS TIME AMERICA WAS INFORMED EVERY DAY , WHEN A MEMBER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, NO MATTER WHERE, LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF DUTY, IT SHOULD NOT BE ON JUST THE LOCAL NEWS, IT SHOULD BE REPORTED ON THE NATIONAL NEWS...EVERYDAY.

THE LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL IS DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER MEMORIAL, WE MUST LEAVE ROOM ON THE LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO HAVE YET TO FALL IN THE LINE OF DUTY. THE MEMORIALS THAT ARE PUT UP FOR THE WARS THAT HAVE BEEN FOUGHT BY OUR SOLDIERS ARE COMPLETED. THE SACRIFICES OF THOSE DEFENDING AMERICA'S FRONT LINE IN THE NATION'S COMMUNITIES WILL NEVER END.