DURING THE SERVICE, OFFICERS REMEMBERED MEGAN BURKE AS A DEFENDER AND A PROTECTOR. A PROCESSION EARLIER TODAY TO LAY SERGEANT MEGAN BURKE TO REST AFTER 31 YEARS OF LIFE. SERGEANT BURKE’S AUNT WROTE A LETTER SAYING MEGAN’S TIME AS AN OFFICER WAS WHERE SHE FOUND HER PEOPLE AND HER PURPOSE. SHE SAID, QUOTE, MEGAN IS IN A PLACE OF WONDER. AND ALL RIGHT. NOW WE ARE IN A PLACE OF PAIN AND HURT. CHIEF WADE GOURLEY REMINDED HIS OFFICERS AND THOSE PRESENT TODAY THAT TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED AND WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL. BUT TO HONOR A FALLEN SISTER BY CARRYING HER MEMORY ALWAYS. SERGEANT BURKE WAS KNOWN AS A DEDICATED, HARD WORKER BY HER PEERS AND HER SUPERVISORS. SHE PUSHED OTHERS TO BE BETTER, AND THAT’S WHAT MADE THEM BETTER. SHE MADE THEM BETTER BY PUSHING AND ENCOURAGING THEM IN POSITIVE WAYS. AS I LOOK ACROSS THE AUDIENCE TODAY, AS YOU GUYS SAW, THE DIFFERENT HONOR GUARDS STANDING OUT FRONT, WE HAVE DIFFERENT STYLES OF BADGES. WE HAVE MULTIPLE COLORED UNIFORMS IN HERE. BUT THIS LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY, THE THIN BLUE LINE ON THIS DAY, IS HERE TO SUPPORT YOU. FAMILY. AND WE’RE ALSO HERE TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER. I KNOW YOU HURT AND WE DO, TOO. AND AS HUNDREDS GATHERED TODAY TO CELEBRATE AND HONOR HER LIFE, HER FRIEND AND COWORKER SAID THAT SHE’S A WOMAN WHO WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. BUT NEVER BE REPLACED.