Author: Harvey Dahline

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Published: 2016-11-11

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ISBN-13: 9780692796573

A book written simply because a friend, Joe Piskel, took the time off work one afternoon to come to my house saying, "Harvey, I know some of your stories, there are so many of them. It's been 17 years since you have been retired, if you don't start writing them they are going to be lost forever to your family and Grand Rapids." So, I got my yellow pad out and started to write a few stories. It is not something I could ever have envisioned. As I wrote on the pad, they were a mess! Then reading them to my wife, as she typed them on the computer, she would hand me a copy. As I read them they would come alive. These stories would cover all facets of police work from a call that a child had fallen into a creek on Hwy. 38 to a shooting taking place at the high school as well as the senseless murder of a fellow law enforcement officer. Doris, my wife of 60 years, kept encouraging me, lending moral support. Sometimes helping me remember as she had lived through these stories with me. Soon, I had written well over 150 short stories covering my personal life, childhood, Army service in Korea and 40 years on the Grand Rapids Police Department. During these years, I wore many hats: Patrolman, investigator, sergeant, assistant chief and eight years as chief. Never looking for the power of the position but the challenges to be met. I worked with men and women, I could never have asked for better coworkers than the ones I had. These stories have now become a book for my family and friends. Along the way to challenge myself, I have also written a book of fictional short stories always striving to bring a different slant to a story, "A Justifiable Ending?"