Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Happy Birthday, Daddy.

We love you and we miss you very much.

Love always,

Malik and Cullen

Malik and Cullen Gordon
Sons

February 20, 2009

Dear Mike,

Happy "35th" Birthday! You are loved and missed everday.

I remember us celebrating your 21st birthday after you finished Basic (Ft. McClellan, AL) and were being sent to Korea. Dad and I ran out to get you a small ice cream cake (your favorite) and we all celebrated in our hotel room.

I remember being so worried that you had to leave the States (later it would be Bosnia) and praying nothing would happen to you. No one would have guessed that our major worry would be you dying in the streets here.

Love you always and forever.

Carol Gordon
Mother

February 20, 2009

SON, IT IS SO GOOD TO KNOW THAT YOUR MEMORY IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE HEARTS OF YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. YOU CAN REST IN PEACE KNOWING YOUR LIFE AND DEATH WILL BE FOREVER REMEMBERED. THANKS SO MUCH TO YOUR DAD FOR HELPING KEEP THE MEMORY ALIVE FOR SO MANY OTHER FALLEN HEROES. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW PROUD HE IS OF YOU. MILES AWAY YET SO CLOSE TO HOME.

INV HAROLD HUTCHISON (RETIRED)
HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA POLICE DEPT

February 20, 2009

Mike...I know today...is another...especially difficult one...of the many days...that your parents...and your family...have spent...without you...in these soon to be...5 years.

I understand how much...your family...would love to have been able...to celebrate...your 35th Birthday...with you...teasing...laughing...and loving...every moment...in your company.

My thoughts are with them...and you are all...in my prayers.

Have a Blessed Birthday...as you watch over all of them... they miss you so.

God bless you Mike.

Anita L. Culosi
sister of NYS Tpr. Salvatore J. Embarrato eow 7/6/61

February 20, 2009

Happy Birthday Michael!! You are always in my heart and I miss you. You will never be forgotten Michael!

Love,
Sheryl

Sheryl Palermo
Riverside PD

February 20, 2009

Happy 35th Birthday Mike. Miss an love you every day. Be back later with another Michael Story.

Love
Dad

February 20, 2009

Happy Birthday, Mike. Although this would have been your 35th, you will forever be thirty-years-old to me. I love and miss you.

John E. Gordon
Brother

February 20, 2009

Michael,

Happy Birthday.. Miss you ...

There Are No Good-Byes Only Love...

Jamie Murillo

February 19, 2009

Officer Gordon,
I know your heaven with my son and probably greeted him when he arrived. Thank you for that, I know he's being watched over in heaven by his fellow brothers in blue and that's a great comfort to me. Your father always manages to write to my Mike on special occasions. The last one being my son's birthday on Valentines Day. What a lucky man you were to have a father like him, his messages always seem to make me feel better and comforted. You know there are similarities in you and my son, vague though they may be. You both have the same first names, both taken from us in vehicle accidents and both fathers are Chiefs with a police department.
Thank you Officer Gordon and please continue to watch over your family and all police officers. You'll forever be in my prayers and someone I consider a friend even though we've never met.
With great respect,
Kim Weigand
Mom of Sgt. Michael C. Weigand
E.O.W. 9/14/2008

Kim Weigand

February 16, 2009

You crossed my mind today. You see...never forgotten.

Linda
CPD

February 14, 2009

I just wanted to stop and say hi, and also to thank your Dad he wrote on my brothers site. It means so much to me Mr. Gordon that you took the time to write, and your kind words are so appreciated.. I know your Mike and my John are watching over all of us today and always....
God Bless you all...

Joyce
Sister of Ofc. John P Harris EOW 8/19/1994 Henrico PD Virginia

February 9, 2009

I wanted to stop by and say Hi to you and your Dad he left a message on my sons page. Your Dad is so right in saying that some days is just to hard to right on this site. Can't say just why, but we are all in the say boat, and some days it just seems like it's sinking.... We all know that we miss you guys so much, that we sometimes wonder how we will every make it through too the next day, and then we do.... Your parents always get all the signs that you send there way, so please keep sending them, I know they cherish all of them.
I know that your parents miss you every minute of everyday, just let them know you are near. And look Clint up for me and let him know we miss him....

Connie Barker F.W.B. Fl
Mother of Clint Walker Prattville P.D. E.O.W. 1-14-04

February 7, 2009

My thoughts & prayers are with you and your family. Rest Easy.

Cindy, Arkansas
Sister of slain Officer Randy Basnett, EOW 9-24-1976

February 7, 2009

To the family and friends of Officer Gordon:
"I pray that the Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."
~ Abraham Lincoln

Lt. Peter Salzberg
Walpole Police Department

January 28, 2009

Mr.& Mrs. Gordon, I wrote this for my brother a little while ago and, I wanted to share it with you also:

It is said that wherever there is love
there is life,
and your memory lives on in the hearts of
your family and friends;
it shines like an eternal flame........
they will love you forever.....you will
never be forgotten.....................

PEREZ
CHICAGO

January 16, 2009

At last
my love has come along
my lonely days over
and life is like a song

Ooh, yeah, yeah
At last
the skies above are blue
My heart was wrapped up in clover
the night I looked at you

I found a dream
that I could speak to
A dream that I
can call my own
I found a thrill
to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Ohh, yeah, yeah

You smile
you smile
Ooh and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
for you are mine at last

Anonymous

January 9, 2009

Mike,

Well, Hawks lost that game at Wrigley. Would you believe they had 42,000 sitting in that cold watching the game. Guess the players all agreed that it reminded them of when they were kids with the outside hockey games they would play on ponds up in Canada. I'm still tracing our family genealogy and when I look at all the names, you have a pretty big group up there to exchange stories with. Your Great Great Grams (Grampa Gordon's Mother) family has been in this country a long time, since about 1600. A few were Revolutionary War soldiers. One of these days I'lll finish it and distribute it to whoever wants it in the family. I know some people think it's a waste of time, but it keeps me busy plus we get to know about out past relative, good and bad.
I just came in from taking down all the blue Christmas lights outside. I'm still a little frozen as its cold out there and my hands aren't what they use to be so excuse any typos. It's worth the time and effort as it's a tribute to all police officers. Well, time to pack a few more things away until next year. Keep watch over the Clan for me. We think of you every day and miss you. I'll be badk soon. Always in our hearts.

Love,
Dad

January 5, 2009

Hi Michael,

Well the holidays are over and we are starting a new year. It's another year that we will be missing you but never forgetting you. I'm sure your well aware of this, but I thought I would share it. It has been a tradition with your Riverside crew, that anytime we are out, we play your favorite Kid Rock song Bawitdaba and hold our glasses up high for you. Anybody that is out with us or sometimes even strangers will join in. Sometimes we will have that moment of silence for you and sometimes we start sharing some Michael stories. The point is, you are always with us. I miss you very much Michael. Please keep watch over all of us.

Love,
Sheryl

Sheryl Palermo
Riverside PD

January 4, 2009

Officer Michael Gordon,
Although I don't know you I felt the need to write you a reflection because every page I visit of every fallen officer your dad has taken the time to write a heartfelt message of compassion, then I read your reflections and through your dad's michael stories I have come to feel like I could know you. Your dad does such a good job of making sure you are remembered I felt compelled to let him know that what he is doing is working, now when I come to odmp to visit officer Kenneth Santucci EOW 9-6-08 I also stop by ur page to see how u and ur family are. I am the wife of a LEO and have 2 sons, I truly feel for ur family and please Mr. Bob Gordon please know u are a very special person. Michael will also live on in your heart and soul and know be will never be forgotten.
Wife of LEO

Anonymous

January 1, 2009

Dear Mike,

Today starts a New Year but it seems like any other day to your Dad and I. Nothing will ever be the same without you.

The Hawks are playing at Wrigley today and I know you will be watching.

Love you always & forever.

Carol Gordon
Mother

January 1, 2009

Never forgotten!

That's it, nice and sweet.

Happy Holidays and a blessed New Year, Gordon Family.

Never forgotten....

Police Officer
Chicago Police Department-011th

December 31, 2008

Mike...I pray...that your Christmas...in that far better place...was blessed and peaceful.

May God bless you...as you keep watch...over your dear family.

You are prayed for...and remembered.

Anita L. Culosi
sister of NYS Tpr. Salvatore J. Embarrato eow 7/6/61

December 26, 2008

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon:
It has been seven years since my son was murdered and I wanted you to know that this time of the year has alot of memories. They are good memories but the emptiness of one person missing is always with you.
It has been four years since you lost your precious son, I wish I could say it gets easier, it does in some ways but the holiday's are always bitter/sweet.
I am glad Mr. Gordon that you tell the stories, they tell us alot about Michael.
God bless you at this time of the year and may He always give you strenght for each day.
Missing our sons terribly,
Lorraine Bond (Mother)
Hamilton Co. Tn. Sheriff Deputy:
Donald K. Bond, Jr.
EOW: 09.06.01

Anonymous

December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas Michael,
As we celebrate Christmas we pray for both our family and yours that we might make it thru another day without you and Jeff. We know the two of you are having a wonderful time and we know you are at peace. Watch over your family and watch for the blue candles in our windows. There are now three of them. One for Jeff, one for you and one for Joe. Joe was a friend of Jeffs who lost his life in Iraq.
Rest in peace. You and your family are always in our heart and in our prayers,
Pat and Bill Hewitt
Parents of Sqt. Jeff Hewitt
Buncombe County Sheriff's Dept., N.C.

Anonymous

December 25, 2008

Michael,

Merry Christmas... Lastnight as I was watching It's a Wonderful life and when your favorite parts came on I couldn't help but smile as I remember how you would say the lines " I wish I had a million dollars, Hot Dog!!! and " George Bailey I'll love you til the day I die" It might sound silly to some people but they would have to know you to understand you always quoted lines from movies.

Well just wanted to stop by and let you know you are always in my thoughts and your missed something aweful..

There Are no Good-byes Only Love....

Anonymous

December 25, 2008