My Michigan Hero

My michigan hero is my dad because he is a police officer. He is a simple man who is an everyday hero for lots of people. He has saved and helped so many lives and he doesn’t get rewards, he just does it again. To think that my dad does this everyday and he is always making sacrifices, is just unbelieveable. It makes me proud of him and I too, want to be able to protect and serve people just like him. My dad is from Benton Harbor, MI. He went to LMC and he was a manager at Shoe Carnival. He then realized that he wants to help people. He went to a Police Academy and he started in Benton Harbor. Now he works in the Berrien Springs Police Department. Sometimes being a hero isn’t always easy, some days when he comes home, he is very …show more content…
My older brother Thomas, also decided he wanted to be like my dad and serve as a cop. He is currently going to Criminal Justice classes in Western Michigan. My dad has influenced some of my brothers to become cops, without saying anything. Sometimes, my dad gets hurt helping people too. One time, he was in a training with blanks. Another officer was startled and he got hit in the ear and they had to take him into the hospital. He had a ringing in his ear for weeks after that incident. Sometimes, he has to deal with things that won’t always make it easy or something no one should deal with, and yet, he can still do his job and protect others. Also there won’t be people that he likes nor people who like him and he still protects him. Sometimes, there have been holidays spent with him gone because he has been called in to deal with accidents. He has seen some things that would absolutely destroy some people mentally. But still, he goes and he does this day after day. There were riots in Benton Harbor and he was waiting to be called in, and if he would have been, he could have made a sacrifice to miss my own birth. There was another time when my dad was in a chase with a man and the man had crashed and