Imagine having your morning cup of coffee with your family, eating breakfast, kissing your kids and spouse goodbye, bolt out the front door, then never know if you’ll walk back home alive later that night.
That is exactly how first responders and law enforcement spend every single day, risking their lives to protect our families and keep our communities safe.
Suffolk County Police Officer Brendon Gallagher is hospitalized and fighting for his life after a serious crash on the Long Island Expressway.
Thankfully two of Nassau County’s bravest were on their way to their respective shifts when they came upon the crash and rendered assistance to the critically injured Suffolk County Police Officer, who was rushed to Stony Brook Hospital.
Every single day we should take time to do two things if we can:
* Thank a veteran for their service to our great nation.
* Thank a first responder, firefighter, and police officer for risking their lives to keep us safe.
In the People’s Republic of San Francisco even hard core radical progressives called to refund the police after slashing law enforcement budgets four years ago, Then Mayor London Breed called for a big increase in police funding, despite that city’s almost $800 million budget deficit.
The move was too little, too late, as fed up and fearful taxpayers just voted her out of office.
Businesses bolted their downtown districts and families couldn’t take the crime infested hellhole San Francisco has become.
The entire “defund the police” movement is one reason why former Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz was such a train wreck of a choice by Kamala Harris.
When violent criminals burned down Minneapolis businesses and attacked cops, Walz bent the knee to the defund the police progressives and refused to call in the National Guard to help police who were under siege from angry mobs.
Sadly and ironically, those who cry to defund the police are often the first to dial 9-1-1 when their lives are on the line.
Case in point, Queens Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán urged businesses in her district to not call 9-1-1 in an emergency. The left leaning pol publicly released a guide for anyone in danger to basically reason with their attacker and call the non-emergency 3-1-1 line for help.
But guess who called 9-1-1 when threats were called into their City Council Office?
You guessed it: defund the police loving leftist Tiffany Cabán.
As for Officer Gallagher, he did not have the opportunity to reason with the mentally unstable individual when he responded to a person in distress call in March of 2022. If this brave Officer took Councilwoman Cabán’s office to call in social workers to deal with mentally unstable individuals, he assuredly would be dead.
That’s because this is Officer Gallagher’s SECOND brush with death while on the force for the Suffolk County Police Department.
It was December of 2022 when a Medford man plunged a knife into his chest. But for the Grace of God he is alive today. This is how Stony Brook University Hospital surgeon Dr. James Vosswinkel described how close he came to dying that day:
“The knife went through his vest, through his notebook, through his shirt, through his skin, through his muscle, through his rib, right over his heart,” said Dr. Vossinkel.
Folks could completely understand if Officer Gallagher turned in his badge back then and took a medical retirement. No one would or should question if he had walked away from the job after that horrific stabbing back in 2022.
He honorably sacrificed his life to protect and serve once again, and for the second time, is fighting for his life after this recent car crash.
We can never, ever repay the debt of gratitude we have for the brave first responders who risk their lives so we can safely live ours.
The least we can do is take the time out of our lives to say “thank you” in whatever way we can to the men and women who wear a uniform to save our lives.
They don’t deserve scorn. They don’t deserve spineless, cowardly politicians pontificating about defunding the police.
The next time a left wing lunatic politician demands we spend less on law enforcement, march them right up to Officer Gallagher’s hospital room.
Let them ask him to his face, the second time he’s battling to survive, if he thinks defunding the police is a great idea.
They don’t have the heart.
Officer Gallagher has a massive heart of selfless sacrifice, one that was almost pierced two years ago at the hands of a mentally unstable individual.
God bless him for the heart that he has, God bless him on his road to recovery, and God bless his family by his side,
They desperately need our thanks and especially praise, now more than ever.