mark a. hekert. nevada -- alan r. beck.

igor soldo.

new hampshire higher -- -- stephen joseph arkel. new jersey -- were not sorenaldo arocha, jr.

christopher m. goodel. stephen j. petrozello.

melvin vincent santiago. new mexico -- anthony p.

haas.

new york -- frank g. bordenero.

thomas k. choy. dennis e. guerera.

wyn jyn lu.

douglas h. mayvell. darrell r. pearson.

rafael l. ramos. christopher g. skinner.

david w. smith jr.

michael c. williams. north carolina -- jeffrey w. green.

stanley l. klingenschmidt. alexander e. thalman.

ohio -- michael a. paris sr.

justin r. weinbrenner.

oklahoma -- bryan d. beck.

kelly a. chase.

terry b. fischer. mitchell d. weeks.

kristen d. willheit.

pennsylvania -- richard a. champion. brian k. dixon ii. david kedra.

cheryl a. pierce. south carolina -- joseph j.

madaskovic. holmes n. smith jr.

tennessee -- david c. johnson. darryl j. perrett.

michael a. petrina. texas -- paul a. buckles.

charles d. dinwiddy.

lee dixon. jessica l. hollis.

cleveland d. johnson jr. mark u. kelley.

alejandro martinez, sr.

michael j. naylor. michael a. pimmintel.

jessie valdez, iii. utah -- corey blake ride.

virginia -- brian m. berger.

purcy lee house, iii. brian w.jones.

washington -- derek a. hansen.

wisconsin -- michael j. seversen.

federal -- oswaldo o. albarati-casana.

michael c. baskett. jair j. cabrera.

jason m. crisp. brian j. feldt.

alexander i. giannini. clinton holtz.

brandon k. kountz. mark a. mayo.

frank e. mcknight.

ernest j. montoya, sr. tyler r. robledo

geniel amaro-fantauzzi

juaquin correa-ortega. marielis morales-santiago.

francisco mujica de leon. carlos rivera-vega.

mario torres-martin. acknowledgment of all deceased officers. mrs. amy scully, wife of alvin scully, florence township police department new jersey.

acknowledgment of all disabled officers. deputy sheriff robin hawkins leo county sheriff's office, new mexico.

acknowledgment of all international officers. new south wales police force australia. acknowledgment of law enforcement officers in deleterious service, united states navy. -- military service. united states navy.

acknowledgment of all officers tc stats a result of terrorist action. sergeant craig pollin, pennsylvania state police.

acknowledgment of all law officers still serving in law enforcement. the top-performing team of the 2015 honor guard competition. united states border patrol honor guard. [applause]

>> please stand national chaplain phillip wiggins delivers the closing benediction. >> please join me in prayer. hear our prayer, god, at 10 to our prayer. from the end of the year if i will cry to you. when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to what is higher than i am. you have been a shelter for me a strong power from enemy. i will abide in your tabernacle forever. i will trust in the shelter of

your wings. father, lifted the family members and asked if they find rest in you alone. the salvation comes from you. he alone is iraq and our salvation and fortress. we will never be shaken when we place our trust in you. in your name we pray, amen. >> david gray to sing god bless america.

god bless america, this land

i want to see those blue ribbons up there, people. let us remember our fallen. god bless america, this land that i love. stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above. from the mountains, through the prairies, through the ocean god bless america, my home sweet home.

god bless america, we will stand behind her if you will guide her, through the night with the light from above. from the mountain to the prairie, to the ocean white with song. god bless america, my home sweet

home. my home sweet home. >> thank you. [applause] >> colors, detail.

>> colors, detail, present. >> colors, and detail, order.

>> colors, and detail, order.

>> order. at ease.

>> on behalf of the united states fraternal police artillery, our 322,000 members nationwide, we thank you. we honor the families that are here today with a promise that we will never let america forget your loss. thank you. god bless you. and that concludes the national

peace officers memorial service. thank you. >> a service for the former speaker of the house jim wright. live at 7:00 a.m., or calls and comments on washington journal. . ♪

>> sunday night on q&a he shares scientific of personal life -- aspects of personal life on the space station. >> the only time i had a shiver go back was watching a shooting star come in between me and the earth on the dark side of the earth. i had the sobering realization that the was a huge dumb rock that missed us admitted down to the atmosphere. if it had sent us, we would have been dead in an instant.

>> sunday night on q and day. -- q&a. >> friends of the former house speaker jim wright gathered for his funeral. he was the majority leader from 1977 to 1987. he was elected speaker. he resigned in 1899 amid ethics investigation. former house members who both served with wright spoke. here are those remarks.

>> in the words of john f. kennedy about right, no city was but a representative -- representative ben ft. worth. he was her mentor, our colleague, and our friend. we were better public service because of jim rice. many of those members from his past and present what democrats are here today to honor jim. in a minute i'm going to speak about what jim did for my career. but it really speaks volumes for what he did for a lot of others too. jim wright was an extraordinary leader both for the people of fort worth and for our nation. he always remembered the people who sent him to washington and worked tirelessly to make our country even better every day he was in office. few congressmen in recent times

have had a greater impact than our friend jim wright. i met jim wright 57 years ago in 1958 when he was a young congressman, then in his second term, and i was a 16-year-old. jim was the guest speaker at the temple bethel youth group in the basement of the old synagogue building on west broad bayh near downtown. i had never met a national politician before and he made a deep impression on me that day. i remember to this day some of what he said and more of that later. seven years later, in 1965, i showed up in washington as a young reporter covering congress for a magazine. the first thing did i was go see my hometown congressman, jim wright. jim and his chief of staff were very helpful to this young reporter, suggesting who i should get to know on

congressional committee staffs. three years later, in the summer of 1968, jim helped me get a job on hubert humphrey's national presidential campaign staff. while i was a student at georgetown law school. the last two people i saw before i headed back to texas following graduation in 1970 were jim and marshall. i told them i hoped to come back to d.c. someday as a congressman. in a neighboring district. i had no intention of ever running against jim wright. [laughter] fast forward to 1976. the carter campaign wanted to come to texas the weekend before the general election, when carrying texas was still in doubt. they wanted to only stop in dallas. as a fort worth boy, i told them they also had to come to cow town and i knew the local congressman, jim wright, would put on one hell of a show for them.

and that's exactly what jim did. he filled the downtown convention center with more than 10,000 people, early in the afternoon that sunday. it made great television and carter became the last democrat -- democratic presidential candidate to carry texas. shortly after that election, jim wright became house majority leader by one vote in a hotly contested secret ballot election. he certainly knew how to count. [laughter] two years later i was elected to congress from the 24th district which in fact adjoined the 12th district that jim represented. jim went to speaker tip o'neill and made sure i was named to a house committee, a position that almost never went to a freshman member. since then jim wright and i became both colleagues and friends. he was my mentor during the 11 years we served together and i learned an enormous amount just watching him in action. and when i inherited the black community in southeast fort

worth following the 1991 redistricting, i only used one picture in my mailing. a photo of jim wright and me. there wasn't anything else in the voters in that part of the district needed to know. they continued to be my base for the remainder of my 26 years in congress. just to make sure people in fort worth knew that i had strong ties to fort worth, even though i now lived in dallas, he used to tell anyone who would listen that i went to high school in his district in fort worth and he went to high school in my district in dallas. [laughter] when jim taught a course at t.c.u. on congress for 20 years, after leaving the congress, i was proud to be a guest lecturer for him every single year. the last time i saw jim was in the spring of 2014 when i was working on a book about congress. we visited for about an hour in his office at t.c.u. his body was frail but his mind was as sharp as ever. i learned how to be an effective

congressman by observing jim as a colleague and as a junior partner on a variety of matters that helped fort worth. he never forgot the people that sent him to washington. he was a stalwart in his work on behalf of defense workers and what is now lockheed martin and was general dynamics and bell helicopter in fort worth. he played a significant role in the decision by american airlines to move its corporate headquarters from new york to the metroplex and he was a strong supporter of d.f.w. airport. the jobs magnet for this part of the state. we worked together and by the way he did the heavy lifting, to convince the railroad to make its right of way available for the trinity express connecting fort worth and dallas.

no request from anyone in tarrant county was too small to win jim's help. also, jim's role in promoting the careers of promising african-americans from fort worth was of great significance. he brought lorraine miller, a young woman from the southeast side of fort worth, to washington to work on his staff . years later she became the first african-american to serve as clerk of the u.s. house. and recently served as interim national president of the naacp. and just a few years ago jim played a key role in the election of marc veasey who became the first black congressman from fort worth. one of jim's greatest strengths was molding a disparity group of democrats into an effective majority when he became speaker. during his first year as speaker in 1987, tony and steny, you will remember this, congressman asked all 13 -- congress passed all 13 appropriation bills before the start of the year on

october 1. something that is almost never done today. i remember his response to a question from the audience as that speech in 1958. he was asked what a congressman does when he feels one way about an issue and his district feels the other way. he responded that the job of a congressman was to reflect the views of his district as often as he could. he then added that he reserved a small percentage of votes, perhaps 10%, to vote against the majority of his district if he felt something was vital in the national interest. and he then added that it was his responsibility to go back to his constituents to explain his vote and hopefully convince them that he was right and they were wrong. he added that if a congressman couldn't successfully do that he wouldn't be re-elected and that was as it should be.

he did a very good job following his own advice. i did the same and found that he was exactly correct. fort worth is a great city today because of jim wright. we all owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. we will never see his like again. >> jimmy and ginger, kay, lisa and all the wright family, i feel that we're akin. and to all of his friends who are here today, i join you in tribute to one of my dearest friends. i kept up with jim through the years even after he left washington and returned to texas and following his recovery from surgery. i gave him a call one day and he invited me to come to fort worth. so my son and i, alex, who is

here, with his sister ashley who came to t.c.u. at a later time, boarded our plane and came to d.f.w. in those days jim was driving. and so he met us at the airport. i'd never been outside of d.f.w. before so i didn't know what to expect. as we left the terminal i noticed all of the concrete infrastructure that had supported -- supports the airport. the entrance ramps, the exit ramps, the overhead, the overhead bridges, the long ride to the interstate. i never saw so much concrete in all my life. so i turned to jim, who had once

said at one time, as most of you know, was chairman of the public works committee, and i said to him, jim, how much money did the public works committee spend on this airport? and he looked at me and rolled his brow and lifted his bushy eyebrows and said to me, not a penny more than the law allowed. [laughter] jim was probably one of the most successful chairmen in congress. and with that success people encouraged him and he ran for majority leader. as all of you probably followed in the news, he was a very contentious -- it was a very contentious race. on the day of the vote i was appointed to be a judge. so after the votes were cast, i adjourned with the other members of the election group and counted the votes.

we counted them twice. and jim won by one vote. i got up from the chair in the speaker's lounge, the speaker's lobby, we call it, rushed through the door to the house chamber and jim was sitting on the second row on the democratic side in the hall of the house. i rushed up to him and i said, jim, you won. he was surprised. because no one knew the outcome of that election. he looked at me and he said, are you sure? [laughter] and i said, jim, i counted the votes. and if you hadn't won, bill

burton said he would send me to alaska. [laughter] following in the footsteps of sam rayburn and lyndon johnson, jim asserted leadership in congress at a time of confusion in the senate and the white house. demonstrating a unique ability to command our nation's political resources to get things done. and this went across the aisle to the republicans and even down pennsylvania avenue to the white house, which is a million miles away if you serve in congress sometimes. jim wright had fought in world war ii to defend the values of the great estrogen ration --

greatest generation as tom brokaw describes his generation. a generation of men and women united in common purposes of family, country, duty, honor courage, service. during world war ii he flew many combat missions. i haven't really been able to discern exactly how many yet there's such a debate over it. maybe somebody will tell me before i go back to washington. but he was awarded and he served as a bombadier and was awarded the distinguished flying cross for hire bravery.

jim believed that government should serve the people as well as the economic interest, which also must be represented. and provide federal assistance to communities and states like arkansas, where i'm from. it's in need of capital development in order to provide infrastructure to try to attract industry and jobs for our people. that was in his view, providing building blocks for the foundation of the economic development that benefits all of us. all got to do is look around in texas a little bit to find out if it works. the criticism of speaker wright, which is in the news, instead of all the accomplishments that we know he achieved, from his strong leadership came from a changing congress. some of my former colleagues from congress are here today and they know what i'm talking about.

beginning with the 1968 election, which was my first election to congress, the ideals and values of the great estrogen ration began to evolve -- greatest generation began to evolve. the congress ran by southern democrats who chaired mostly of the important committees in the congress were gradually erased by a younger generation of congressmen and senators, many of them in the other party. and when he left congress, even his political enemies often remarked that had he stayed in congress, he would have been the greatest speaker since henry clay. his time as speaker laid down historic markers. he was the last great figure in congress to keep alive the idea of the development of -- that came from the new deal would

help our economy. after him came what we call reaganomics. and the title -- tidal wave of polarization of our two political parties and the continuing mindless cannibalism which we can still see evident today between the parties and even in the parties in congress. criticism of speaker wright's forceful leadership came from republicans and democrats alike. although at the time he stepped down the principle an tage nists came from -- an tag nists came

within our own -- antagonists came within our own party. i was there and i know who they are. what followed was a profound change in the power structure in congress. shifting away from the power and authority lodged in a handful of key southern committee chairmen, to a dispersion of power among proliferating committees and subcommittees, encouraging intensifying rivalries and even political fratricide throughout the house. his departure marked the end of an era when southern democrats dominated in both the house and the senate, along with a gradual evolution of the congress toward social issues. it marked the transition from

southern leadership of congress to a growing concentration of power of the democratic party in our nation's biggest cities. many of them in the north, operating a widening rift between our nation's smalltowns and rural areas -- small towns and rural areas and the political interests of the inner cities. the way was open for lobbyists to shift attention away from schools and roads and bridges and water systems that helped our people, to special interests of wall street, banks and a commercial agenda. a fluent speaker of spanish, he took the initiative to intervene

in the political crisis in nicaragua and crafted peace talks that laid the foundation for elections. when i assisted him in this so-called junk et -- junket in his endeavor i found that we tried to do what we -- what we tried to do generated much consternation among president reagan's white house staff. later another great texan, james baker, observed that what jim wright did with his intervention in nicaragua turned the corner for that nation and helped the u.s. and nicaragua to come to better terms with one another. jim wright was not only a master of the political structure and the rules in congress, he also was an author, a professor, he

lectured at texas christian university with eagerness to inspire and guide our nation's youth. in the tradition of sam houston and sam rayburn, jim wright was a giant. i was his chief deputy whip in the congress. the worst job in the house of representatives. [laughter] but it was worth all the knocks and the cuts and the bruises and the criticism that i endured to fight for the values established by the great estrogen ration, until the ideals were changed -- greatest generation until the ideals were changed by a new breed of voter who believes that washington is not a solution, rather washington is the problem.

he was my dear friend and i stood with him in every fight. for the values that won world war i i and provided the building blocks and foundation for the greatest economy on earth. god bless jim wright. >> martin, bill, betsy, mike kenneth, mr. leader, steny hoyer, the one man in this sanctuary today that knows the full weight and measure of the responsibilities of the job this prince of peace executed so beautifully for so many years. dear steny, thank you for your

presence today. how very honored he would be how much he'd love this congregation today. this is a delegation of community builders. mr. wright loved sam rayburn dearly and he often quoted him. of course many people wondered why mr. rayburn went back to bottom, texas, after announcing he was going to leave the house . his answer was simple. bottom, texas, the people there

know when you're sick and they care when you die. you have validated jim wright's recitation of that quote, all of you today, by honoring him in coming here. you knew he was ill and you care that he died. oh, how he would celebrate you. oh, how he must be enjoying this. he loved people of accomplishment. he loved people who contributed and built. mr. rayburn, you see, a jack ass can kick a barn down, it takes a carpenter to build one. it's no accident that our lord was fathered by a carpenter and parented by a carpenter in his early years. i'd like to give you a sense of speaker wright and jim wright as

my friend, may be very, very unique. as i've thought about him so much and as i visited him in those final days, things came to me i would have never imagined. he was a gifted multitasker. if you know anything about jim he despised trying to work with technology but he was a multitasker. let me explain what i mean. february 7, 1985, 11:00 in the morning, after about 30 days some of the people in this room , tony, john, had been working diligently because mr. o'neill had told us privately he was going to retire. so we were trying to collect the requisite number of votes for him to become speaker of the house two years out. february 7, 1985, 11:00 in the morning, national press conference was held in the office of steny hoyer. the day he met the national press, he was surrounded by his

colleagues, he was surrrounded by people who loved him and wished well for him and he made the announcement that he'd achieved the requisite number of votes to capture his dream, to be speaker of the house. he put a peace, if you will, in a body that's not given to peace easily, about the next years and how things would follow. 15 minutes later he grabbed me by the arm and escorted me and my wife, donna, up the back stairs with 31 other people to the house chaplain's office where chaplain ford married us at henry clay's desk, the great compromiser. and then he walked back downstairs with us, we had a reception in the office and he pulled donna and i aside and said, i only have two things to

tell you two. paul, always hold her hand and never go to bed mad. mr. speaker, sometimes you set the bar too high. [laughter] i have removed pillows from my bed so as not to elevate the temptation for donna to smother me. [laughter] there are so many things privately that i love about him that we share. he had a passionate love for boxing. he knew boxing, he knew boxing like the famous author who recorded almost everything of significance about american heavyweight boxing. we went to a fight, we went to golden gloves, we went to the olympic trials, we went to tons of professional fights. it was like going to that fight with ned flasher. he'd be sitting there and reciting to you the ring scores

of the fight. he knew every -- like every hobby and interest he had, he wanted to know everything there was to know about it. if you ever saw the roses that he cultivated, you'd understand that in spades. he was a gifted horticulturist. he was a great teacher. kay, you and i sat just about where steny was sitting two years ago, 2 1/2 years ago, and you told me how he taught you and ginger and jimmy and lisa about god. in fact, he used a wagon wheel and said that the universe and god was indeed the hub and the spokes represented the people. of course the rim where all the damage and impact takes place is the furthest from god.

he admonished you that it was your job, it was your responsibility, it was the tentment of your faith to move closer down those spokes because you'd be closer to more people. and as you were closer to more people, you'd be closer to god. what a gift. i've often wondered, and i think everyone in this sanctuary today wonders why god lets us see certain things at certain times. last week, just a day before his passing, and only a few days after my last visit with him there was a documentary on about george foreman. i happened to turn it on in the middle of the night.

george foreman, the famous heavyweight, struck fear and terror in everyone's heart, undefeated, knocked poor joe frazier down eight times. in the interview they asked him a question, they said, who was the greatest champion of all time in your estimation? and george foreman didn't hesitate. he said, muhammad ali. that stunned the interviewer. muhammad ali had defeated george foreman in africa and usually when a boxer loses to another one, it was a lucky punch or he was just a little better that night. not the greatest champion after that lived. he didn't hesitate. he said, muhammad ali. the interviewer said, why, why did you choose him? he said, well, if you saw the fight in the eighth round, he hit me twice in the face. george foreman began to cartwheel. he began to turn and fall to the floor and as he was falling, muhammad ali, as all boxers are trained all their life to do

cocked his arm to hit him with what is called the killing punch. george foreman said, i looked up at him just partially conscious, knowing i was going to the floor, and he never threw that punch. so for me he's not the greatest champion that ever lived for the punches he threw, it's for what he didn't do. it's the punch he didn't throw. the very people who besmirched this prince of peace, at the end of his public career, when they fell on hard times and they fell by the sword they had so recklessly wielded, not once in private and certainly never in public did jim wright throw that punch.

he could not retaliate. he didn't just talk christian forgiveness. he lived it. his higher calling at that time was to find a way to inspire students at t.c.u. to engage public service. and to think about the possibilities of what they could build, like the beautiful people in this room today. he didn't throw that punch. i was 15 years old, standing in front of a black and white tv, when i watched robert kennedy say, when he shall die, take him

take him and cut him up in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garrish sun. i didn't know at 15 just what that meant. at 65, i marvel how bobby kennedy could have mustered the strength and the insight to say that about the brother he loved , in some ways his best friend and oh, by the way, in passing the president of the united states. i understood because of his church and because of my

association with him that all of us have a spark of divinity. we are all made in god's image and that star is there. what i didn't understand is that there are a special few that possess a flame, a torch. it's bigger, it's more committed, it's something we can appreciate, it's not necessarily something we readily understand. it's not by accident that there's an eternal flame that burns at john kennedy's grave. and why, for all the accomplishments, the peace corps, the space program, all of those things, no. that's part of it, that's why millions go there to pay respects. but part of it is that during the most sensitive time in our

nation's history, when we were the closest to engaging in a nuclear holocaust, when every advisor that that president had was admonishing him, to take advantage of the tactical and strategic position we occupied for those precious few days, and strike cuba with nuclear weapons, he didn't throw that punch. and we're all breathing good air and loving our friends and conducting our lives because of that divine torch. the thing i think i will miss most is a private passion that jim had and i shared.

he loved movies. the singular thing that we really appreciated together was we happened to think that robert duvall was the greatest american actor that's ever lived. [laughter] jim's favorite movie wags "tender mercies." my favorite film was "the natural." and in "the natural," there's a scene, of course all the ladies in here know robert redford was the natural, he was the gifted baseball player, robert duvall was the cynical sports writer.

willford brimley was the crusty old coach. and there's that beautiful soliloquy where the coach walks in and he says, i mean, pardon me, robert duvall walks in and says to the coach, coach, who is this roy hobbs? and the coach turns on his heels and says, i don't know who roy hobbs is. i just know he's the best there is and the best there ever will be. jim wright, you are the natural. there probably has never been a man in american history that i can recall to that so eloquently used the english language. he helped those of us who only have sparks appreciate the flame, with his application of our language.

and it seems a shame that i can't find words in my language to encompass all that he was and is. and will always be. only in spanish. [speaking spanish] go and be with god. light of our land. friend of my life. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> next, president obama's

remarks at the national peace officer memorials conference. then washington journal. >> this weekend the c-span ci ties tour to went to fort lauderdale, florida. >> here was an attraction. the sentinels giving by the road. when they came into the attractions there were getting food, the weekly allotment, and they were also hitting sewing machines. they would also get fabric because it is the tourist people to supply them with fabric, so there sewing and make the

ings for the craft market. this was an experimental time for patchwork. can see on the bottom, this is not a design that has made it today. this is an experimental design. >> the thing about double triangle and be right triangle there are all sorts of things that have happened. flight 19 was a regular training mission. they would takeoff from the face and then they went east toward the behind us. they would drop bombs on that, and then they would continue another 70 miles or so and then they make it turn north and go 100 something miles and then make it turn back west towards fort lauderdale.

they've ever came back. they sent out rescue plan, and one of them disappeared. they started a five-day shirts and never found anything -- search and never found anything. >> on friday, president obama plaid tribute to law enforcement officers lost their lives in 2014. here are the president's remarks. the event was held on the west front of the u.s. capital.

>> thank you. thank you piu. please be seated.

thank you, chuck, for that kind introduction. for years the proud service as a police officer and the advocacy you do on behalf of law enforcement in families. i want to thank the fraternal order of police and leadership including jim pascoe and linda hennie for everything you do to support those who protect and serve. let me also say as we gather here today our prayers remain with the families of our marines and two nepalese soldiers now that the wreckage of their helicopter has been found in a remote part of nepal. they went to that remotely and to help people who suffered devastating losses in the earthquake. they represent a true that guides our work around the world and our friends need america's help. sometimes those in uniform get attention only when there is a battle, but they do so much more than looking out for folks who are vulnerable or having a tough time experiencing disaster and it can involve great risk and great sacrifice. and we give thanks to all of our fellow americans, military and civilian who reflect the very best of american leadership around the world. we are here to honor heroes who lost their lives in the line of

duty. the men and women who put themselves in the way of danger so that the rest of us can live in safety. they were beat cops, deputies, detectives, correctional enforcement service officers federal and tribal police. but to many here today, they went by different titles. caring husband, loving wife, my son, my daughter, mom, dad. so to all the families who are here today, whose loved ones did not come home at the end of a shift, please know how deeply sorry we are for the loss you have endured. know how deeply grateful we are for your loved one's sacrifice. we hold them up as heroes because that is what they are.

it takes a special kind of courage to be a peace officer. to be the one people turn to in in their most desperate moments, to be willing to run into a dangerous situation when everyone else is running the other way. the scripture tells us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, but only a special few take the commandments so deeply to heart that they are willing to risk their lives so that others, often total strangers can know peace and security and that is what peace officers do. today we honor 131 who made the ultimate sacrifice. officer kevin gordon was a member of the police department in griffin, georgia.

husband to tammy, father of seven children, army veteran. his daughter deborah said we were his platoon. kevin deployed his own training to raise his young platoon leading them in cadences. how motivated are you? they were motivated, highly motivated. drove them with the basics to study hard and push yourselves and take care of each other and everywhere he went, he made friends. in tammy's words, he never met a stranger. to help make ends meet, kevin took a night shift as a security guard at a waffle house and one

night customers got rowdy and as kevin was placing a troublemaker under arrest, he was shot and killed. he was just 43 years old. one week later kevin's son graduated from griffin high. there to cheer him on were over 100 of kevin's fellow officers. today he is in the army training to be an mp and wants to be among enforcement just like his dad. senior deputy jessica hollis started out as an emt in san antonio, texas. she and her husband ricky applied to the police academy together, were accpected to gather and graduated together. the second married couple in boston to do that. jessica eventually joined the county sheriffs office where she became a senior deputy and member of the prestigious dive

team. she was a fierce animal lover. if she drove by a turtle trying to cross the road, she would slam on the brakes and gently carry it to the other side. she took her son mason on special vacations. the family lake house in new orleans, on diving trips just the two of them, and last september after heavy rains, jessica went out to check for civilians trapped in rising water. it was around 2:00 in the morning when she called for help. her car was being swept away by the flood water. minutes later she was missing. dozens of officers came to join the search but by the time they found her, it was too late. more than 1000 people attended senior deputy's funeral. and mayor travis county sheriff greg hamilton made sure to tell all of his officers that he

never had a chance to say something to jessica. i will do anything for you. officer roberto sanchez's parent s brought him into california from mexico when he was just four years old. it was the first trip on an airplane and that airplane is what brought him to america. he began to collect model airplanes. he took his high school sweetheart, sonja, on plane spotting date, even worked as a freight carrier in orange county john wayne airport. he always had one big dream to be a police officer. when he joined the lapd, friends say was one of the happiest days of his life. he lived within walking distance of his bearings. he volunteered at the school where his niece teaches kindergarten and he married sonja, his high school

sweetheart and his partner on the force was his best friend, so life was good. one night officer sanchez was in pursuit of a speeding vehicle when someone intentionally crashed into his patrol car. he was the third los angeles police officer killed in a crash in just two months. your jobs are inherently dangerous. the reminders are too common. just a few days ago, two police officers were killed in the line of duty in mississippi. a week before that an officer was killed in the line of duty in queens. a few months before that, two of his fellow officers in the n.y.p.d. were killed as well. we cannot erase every danger from the duty you have chosen. we can offer you the support you need to be safe. we can make the communities you care about and protect safer as

well. we can make sure you have the resources you need to do your job. we can do every thing we have to do to combat the poverty that plagues too many communities in which you have to serve. we can work harder as a nation to heal the risk that still -- rifts that still exists in some places between law enforcement and the people you risk your lives to protect. we owe it to all of you who wear the badge with honor. we owe it to your fellow officers who gave their last full measure of devotion. most of all, we can say thank you. we can say we appreciate you and we are grateful for the work that you do each and every day.

and we can thank the families who bear the burden alongside you. on behalf of the american people, the for the families friends and fellow officers of those we have lost, my prayers and deepest thanks. we could not be prouder of them or more grateful for their service. we cannot be prouder of you and all who worked so hard to keep us safe. may god bless you and comfort the mourning. may he bless the united states of america. [applause] >> next, washington journal.

after that, new york city mayor bill de blasio talking about jobs and the economy. ♪ >> sunday night on c-span's q&a, veteran astronaut chris hatfield produced many videos on his activities in the international space station and shared personal aspects of life in space. >> the only time i felt a shiver of fear was on the dark side

of there, looking at the one side of eastern australia, and watching a shooting star come between me and the earth. at first i had the standard reaction of wishing upon a star and then i just realized it was a huge, don maroc hurdling 20 miles a second that missed us and made it down to the atmosphere. it had had hit us, it was a big enough one that you can see it and we have been dead in an instant. >> monday night on q&a. >> this morning on washington journal, former homeland security council discuss the future of the patriot act. and later the obama

administration's a decision to allow for royal -- drilling for oil and gas off the alaskan coast. washington journal is next. >> today the jury has spoken and dzhokhar tsarnaev will pay with his life his crimes. ♪ host: u.s. attorney carmen ortiz announcing a verdict for dzhokhar tsarnaev. this is the first time that a terrorist has been sentenced to death in the post 9/11 era. in our first 45 minutes as morning, we invite you to weigh in on the decision. especially, the application of the death penalty in the case. here is how you