The families of three Georgia officers killed this month in the line of duty are among those being comforted by a foundation started by a Cobb County man who was once deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.
In a recent report by FOX 5 Atlanta, Army Colonel David Dodd said after retiring, he started a nonprofit—Point 27—where he gives dog tags to those in the armed forces and a special thin blue line dog tag to those in law enforcement.
“The thin blue line on the American flag stands for the men and women in blue (who) stand between good and evil. On the back is a scripture verse that reads: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God,'” Dodd told FOX 5 Atlanta.
Dodd started his Point 27 nonprofit after retiring from the military and gives police officers a special thin blue line dog tag as a physical reminder that “God is with us wherever we go,” FOX 5 reports.
According to the report, when a law enforcement officer dies in the line of duty, Point 27 presents the family with a folded flag pendant to remind them their loved one is not forgotten. Engraved on the back of the pendant is, John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than to lay down their life for a friend.”
In all, Point 27 has given out more than 30,000 of the pendants, including to nine Georgia families this year and to the families of Cobb County Sheriff’s deputies John Koleski and Marshall Ervin Jr. and State Trooper Cadet Patrick Dupree over the last three months, FOX 5 reports.
