Fallen Officers
Since the establishment of the Eugene Police department, three officers have died while in the line of duty. One officer died in 1930 of gunfire, the second died in a motorcycle accident in 1934, and the third officer was shot while pursuing a vehicle into Springfield in 2011 and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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Famous quotes containing the words fallen and/or officers:
“A hunger seized my heart; I read
Of that glad year which once had been,
In those fallen leaves which kept their green,
The noble letters of the dead.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme—mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.”
—Bernard Ingham (b. 1932)