Superior Officers Association - Police Department of Nassau County, NY

Caryn Pfeifer

Good Luck to all!

I wanted to write an article in the last Gold Shield but I wasn’t ready to do so. I had a hard time saying good-bye to Tony Gambino and Jim Ward, who both too the retirement incentive. Now that they’ve been retired a few months and seem to be adjusting well I am ready to say a little something; (I don’t know why I was so worried?) Maybe I was just worried about myself and how I will miss them so much! It took me months to accept the retirement of George Hassett… George is adjusting well and now living in Myrtle Beach.

Unless you have been part of this office, you wouldn’t understand how close we all become working here together every day. We are a team and like a family. Everyone knows what needs to be done and when to do it.

Now, Gary, Brian, Paul and I welcome Kevin Black and Greg Morley to our team/family. They fit right in…. welcome! George, Tony and Jim; please stop by and visit us as often as you can. I miss our Friday afternoon doo-wop sessions. You will always be a part of this S.O.A. family.

I also wanted to wish a few Trustees who retired in September/October who will be missed by myself and the S.O.A. family. Good luck first to Sammy Giambrone. Not enough space to write about how we all feel about Sammy! Everyone who knows him will say the same. Such a kind, sensitive person with a heart of Gold… The other trustees and close friends of mine I must mention, whom I will miss so much, are Bob Randlov (spanky), Tommy Bregenzer, Kevin Caslin and John Allen. All these guys were so special to me and I wish them a happy and healthy retirement! Please stop by……which they have been doing so already. Please continue to… (Don’t listen to Gary).

Again, welcome Kevin and Greg to our office and also to all the new trustees who were recently elected to serve on the S.O.A. Board. To name a few: Kevin Driscoll (1^st), Brian Adams (3^rd), Mike Salvemini (8^th), Steven Cates (HQ. I), John Kelly, former 4^th pct. Trustee, (HQ. III), Bob Galgano (Squads), Brian Sweeney (DD Annex) and Bob Bua (HPB). Welcome!

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On a sad note I wish to say good-bye to my friend for over 20 years; Michael Axelrod, who passed away from lung cancer. You fought a hard fight, Mike. You never gave up. May God bless you.

Sampson, Tyson and Corona

My Boys !!! Tyson, Corona and Sam !

RIP

Four-O Miss you so much!

Jackson

Corona - 4 years

Jackson ...

Sir Benjamin

Frankie

Notary Public

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HEROES

By Christine M Wood

Pierced by an Arrow,
The tall buildings stood,
the quiet field or meadow,
and the place they never could.

Three unlikely places...
the shock of many faces,
the telephone calls,
and the people in the halls.

The tall buildings crumbled,
All Americans mumbled;
How could this really be,
Not once but Times Three!

Never had many seen this horror,
Never had so many earned our honor.
In a matter of an hour,
Everyday people began to tower.

Police & Fire from NY, DC, and PA,
Had their worst and finest day.
Heroes , this ordinary housewife
Won't forget all her life.

American Pride Meant little to me,
Now it means everything... TIMES THREE!!

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An American Soldier

by Mary Hamrick



There is no final solution for wretched man, only a quest for good fellows to defy them. I am a revolutionary of true colors carrying the weight of the world in my immigrant red, white, and blue hands. Always puckering for a kiss of democracy I lay back and fall easily in love with my terrain. I know no war is an easy war but I am aware that within its frenzy of gloom it reanimates the speechless. War, a place where madness in the eye of a flower seems normal and at the end of the stain of the day the beauty of being is forever gone to a place where whimpering willowy men and women are soon crushed by dangerous things in the crosscurrents of the air, then crucified. How can we ignore misery and deepen the darkness by laying back like reclining nudes with faraway eyes? No grace, no grit, no honor. For me it is not so simple. My eyes, like distant beacons, shield the will-less on their borders and as the gray gulf pulls us close to them we stand as one, waist-deep in lumps of earth wielding our orange tambourines and pray the goal of glory becomes as visible and as dominant as the force of prairie lightning. I am a soldier, your sweet protector (where old terrors mingle) creeping on until their undoing. Sign of life, as I carry the world piece by piece. ©2001, Mary Hamrick

Superior Officers Association Police Department of Nassau County, New York

Administrative Assistant