2009 National Police Week in Washington DC
By Elvert Barnes
18 May 2009
Since the 1991 opening of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial ... Coloradans Kirk Bockman and Jim Lee, of Great Panes Glass, Inc, have traveled to Washington DC, in April of each year, to engrave the names of the fallen law enforcement officers that will then be honored at the annual National Police Week Candlelight Vigil which takes place at the Memorial in May, of each year.
While, historically, it may be BLUE MASS at St. Patricks Catholic Church at 10th and G Streets in NW WDC that launches National Police Week ... as in the past three years, I began my documentation of the 2009 National Police Week on Tuesday afternoon, 23 April 2009 when I captured Bockman and Lee in the process of engraving 387 names.
Here is my blog posting at http://elvertbarnes-freedom.blogspot.com/2009/04/kirk-bockman-and-jim-lee-return-to.html
My documentation would resume early Sunday morning, 10 May 2009 at the 14th Annual LAW RIDE Assemblance Rally at the RFK Stadium Parking Lot in SE WDC. Which after capturing more than a thousand law enforcement motorcylists step-off from the stadium for the annual ride west along Consitution Avenue pass the US Capitol, north on 4th Street, and west on E Street to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial (NLEOM) I then also captured the 14th Annual LAW RIDE WREATH CEREMONY at the NLEOM.
Visit http://elvertbarnes.com/14thLawRide2009.html photoesaay for details.
I returned to the NLEOM on Tuesday afternoon, 12 May 2009 for the 2009 POLICE UNITY TOUR ARRIVAL CEREMONY which having begun in 1997 and, if my memory serves me correctly, I photographed several of its participants at the Wall in 1997.
Here is the photoessay at http://elvertbarnes.com/2009PoliceUnityTourArrival.html
On Wednesday evening, 13 May 2009, I returned to the NLEOM for the 21st Annual CANDLELIGHT VIGIL where images may found at the http://elvertbarnes.com/21stCandlelightVigil2009.html photoessay.
My Thursday afternoon, 14 May 2009 documentation began on New Jersey Avenue between D and E Streets in NW as thousands gathered for the 14th Annual Emerald Society Pipeband March from New Jersey Avenue, along E Street to the NLEOM. Webpage is at http://elvertbarnes.com/14thEmeraldSocietyPipebandMarch2009.html
Unfortunately, I was not able to make it to 28th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Day Services at the US Capitol West Lawn on Friday, 15 May 2009.
Though still under construction, here is my 2009 National Police Week photoessay at http://elvertbarnes.com/NationalPoliceWeek2009.html.
Next weekend is Memorial Day Weekend and, as I have done since 1993, I'll be out documenting Rolling Thunder and Memorial Day Weekend in Washington DC in a similar fashion as I have documented National Police Week.
