The Brief
- The 37th Annual Polk County Officers’ Memorial Service was held Thursday at Lakeland Veterans Memorial Park on Lime Street.
- It’s where officers who died in the line of duty are remembered forever, along with their sacrifice.
- Thirty-seven fallen officers were honored during the “Roll Call of Heroes.”
LAKELAND, Fla. – It’s at the Polk County Law Enforcement Memorial where officers who died in the line of duty are remembered forever, along with their sacrifice. May 1 was the 37th Annual Polk County Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at Lakeland Veterans Memorial Park on Lime Street.
Local perspective:
Chuck Goddard, his brother, Chris, and sister, Rebekah, make it a point to return every year to the memorial service. Chuck and his twin brother were just 10 years old and his sister, three, when their father, David Goddard, who was a deputy with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, was killed in a car crash while on call back in 1989.…