"MY
FRIEND"
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A
TRIBUTE TO:
1st SGT.
KARL
KELLEY
~ "602"
INDIANA
CONSERVATION
OFFICER |
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WE'VE
COME TODAY TO HONOR YOU
YOUR NAME UPON THE WALL,
TO TELL THE WORLD THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW,
"MY FRIEND" WHO GAVE IT ALL.
IT
STARTED ALL SO INNOCENT
TO TRAIN, WE THOUGHT THAT DAY,
ONLY GOD COULD KNOW THE DREADED FATE,
OR THE PRICE THAT YOU WOULD PAY.
TAKING
ON THE ROUGHEST WATERS
TO LEARN, AND TEACH THE WAY,
THAT OTHERS MIGHT NOT LOSE THEIR LIVES,
RATHER, SAVE SOMEONE, SOMEDAY.
AS
WATERS FLOODED ACROSS OUR BOAT
AND THE PLAN, IT WENT ARRAY,
THE ONE WHO CAME TO GET US OUT,
WOULD GIVE HIS LIFE THAT DAY.
A BURDEN
I'VE FOUND HARD TO BARE
THAT YOU WOULD DIE FOR ME,
AND GIVE YOUR ALL THAT WE MIGHT LIVE,
YOUR SPIRIT THEN SET FREE.
HOW
CAN YOU SAY TO ONE LIKE THAT
THE PRICE IT WAS TOO GREAT,
FOR AS YOU DIED FOR US THAT DAY,
YOUR HEAVEN DID AWAIT.
IF
HE WERE CALLED ONCE MORE THIS DAY
TO DO IT ALL AGAIN,
I KNOW HE'D SAY, "WITHOUT A DOUBT,
NO QUESTIONS, YOUR MY FRIEND."
JOHN
15:13
"GREATER
LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN THIS,
THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"
HONORED IN WASHINGTON D.C.- POLICE WEEK 1999
by
INDIANA CONSERVATION OFFICER
RIVER RESCUE TEAM
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