In response to the shootings of four Lakewood police officers, News Talk 97.3 KIRO FM is asking all area residents and businesses of every kind to join together and display blue lights in any window, or on any building,  Tuesday, Dec. 8, as a sign of support for the fallen police officers and those officers who continue to protect and serve our communities.

 

The inspiration for the blue light display came to the attention of 97.3 KIRO FM Morning News Anchor, Gregg Hersholt, from Pastor Greg Asimakoupoulos of the Mercer Island Convenant Church.

 

Earlier this week, Pastor Asimakoupoulos wrote a poem in honor of the fallen officers called, “Put a Blue Light in Your Window.” The poem reads as follows:

 

Put a blue light in your window
for those officers in blue
who were gunned down having coffee.
It’s the least that we can do.

 

It’s a way of showing honor
to their families who are left
who must face the coming season
feeling lost, alone, bereft.

 

On these silent nights of sorrow
as we take time to be still
that blue light in the window
will recall those who were killed.

 

Each with uniform allegiance
to the force they proudly served
died committed to our safety
and the laws they helped preserve.

 

So… to the green and red of Christmas
let us add the color blue.
It will say to those now fallen
we will never forget you.

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