Credit: Alexandra Pais/New Jersey Local News Service
By Tiffani N. Garlic/For The Star-Ledger
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (Somerset County) — It was a sea of bicycles and blue as about 150 officers from across the country gathered in Franklin Township to join thousands more on the national Police Unity Tour to Washington D.C. honoring those killed in the line of duty.
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The officers, each raising $1,700, pedal from all over the country and arrive on Wednesday at the National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial and Museum in Washington D.C. where the names of fallen officers are engraved on a memorial wall.
Michael Martin, 42, of the Howell Township Police Department in Monmouth County, has participated in two other rides and said the show of ssolidarity inspires him.
“It’s one place I want to visit, but God forbid that I have my name on that wall, but if it does I know that all these folks are coming each year to pay their respects,” he said.
Bob Himes, 36, of the Baltimore City police department in Maryland, said he was riding for a friend who was fatally shot while serving a warrant in 2008.
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