Honor roll call
National Law Enforcement Museum program will allow
officers to stand with their sisters and brothers
n BY MITCHELL KRUGEL
The millions of miles NJ State PBA members have pedaled rid-
ing the Police Unity Tour and the millions of dollars they have
raised for the National Law Enforcement Memorial – $2.5 million
alone in 2016 – will allow law enforcement officers across the U.S.
to finally “Stand with Honor.”
Unity Tour Founder Pat Montuore and Executive Director Har-
ry Phillips made their annual appearance at the NJ State PBA
Mini Convention to present tokens of appreciation for support to
President Pat Colligan, Executive Vice-President Marc Kovar and
Special Projects Coordinator John Hulse. Each year this presen-
tation also pays tribute to how the Unity Tour would never have
raised a single dollar of the $21.5 million procured through 2016
had it not been for the PBA’s support beginning in 1998.
Now, Pat and Harry are offering PBA members the chance to
be on the ground floor of a tribute as momentous as the National
Law Enforcement Memorial. Across the street from the Memori-
al, the National Law Enforcement Museum is entering the home
stretch of its construction, and a program titled “Stand with Hon-
or” will populate the facility with the stories of every officer who
ever walked the blue line.
“What I’m saying to you is that you matter every single day,”
Phillips rallied. “When we say we don’t matter, we die.”
Stand with Honor is an opportunity to ensure all blue lives
matter by putting the story of every officer, active or retired, living
or dead, in the museum.
“This will be the first historical database of all officers across
the county, and it will be the first program in the house where
we should be, your museum,” Montuore encouraged. “It’s your
history, so let’s be part of something that makes us real for the
first time. This will make us whole in Washington, D.C., make sure
our brothers and sisters are not forgotten and be something that
makes us real for the first time.”
Time out for a quick review: The National Law Enforcement
Museum is a 57,000-square-foot Museum designed to tell the
story of American law enforcement through high-tech interac-
tive exhibits, comprehensive collections of artifacts, extensive
resources for research and diverse educational programming.
Concrete is currently being poured for four floors below ground
level. The one level above ground will then be constructed and
the museum is scheduled to open in July, 2018.
Following the trail of the Unity Tour, Pat and Harry are starting
in New Jersey to fulfill the mission of having individual exhibits