Speaking of the Lady Cop....just got off the phone with her. She has to attend a department wide award ceremony this Thursday in full dress blues to receive a dept award. She has no clue what the award is for. An NYPD division commander personally told her supervisor that she was required to attend.
Unfortunately the ceremony is not open to friends/family or else I'd be hoping a train to Manhattan to attend.
Probably for her part in the incident that saw her sent to hospital, anyway, well done to her, you must so proud of her [emoji6]
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She really doesn't know why she was ordered to be at that award ceremony in full dress uniform. We'll find out Thursday I guess.
It wouldn't be the first time she received a commendation award from the NYPD. Years ago she saved a kid who was slashed with a knife and was bleeding out. She stopped the bleeding, bare handed, until the ambulance arrived.
To say that I am proud of her who be an understatement. I've had the privilege of her telling me her life story and overcoming extreme adversity. Most would NOT have accomplished what she has done. And it has made her the fiercely independent woman she is today. Let me give you a quick synopsis....
(And if she found out I told this she would kill me
)
She was born in Harlem.
At a young age her family moved from Harlem to a housing project in Bed-Sty Brooklyn.
Shortly after that her Father abandon the family.
She never learned to ride a bicycle or know how to swim.
At age 15 she became an unwed mother with her first son.
At age 17 she became an unwed mother again with her second son. (She never had any more children)
Both teen fathers denied paternity (of course)
She was forced to drop out of school.
She had to go on public assistance (welfare...the dole) but was determined to get off it.
That's when she began to turn things around. Despite being an unwed mother with 2 young children she managed to get her GED.
She landed her first job with the NYC dept of education as a school crossing guard and was able to support herself and her boys.
Sometime after that she transferred to what was then the dept of education school safety guards.
I think it was sometime in the 1990's the school safety guards were transferred as a full division to the NYPD and given full law enforcement capability as any typical policeman.
Sometime in between there she did get married to someone who was not very supportive and somewhat verbally abusive.
She was just blocks from all the horrors of 9/11 and on duty for 3 straight days and assisted with getting people across the Brooklyn Bridge.
A little over 10 years ago she beat cancer.
Proud of her? Without a doubt...and I've told her, many times.
I'm wandering way too far off subject. Gotta get back on track. I think my next project will arrive today. If it does I'll do a reveal and teardown.