In a Sea of Seasonal Red and Green, Bucks County Includes an Honorific Hue for Project Blue Light

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Image via County of Bucks at Levittown Now.
Project Blue Light honors fallen officers, remembering their loss at the holidays.

When Philadelphia resident Dolly Craig, perhaps moved by the Elvis Presley seasonal song “Blue Christmas,” honored her police officer son-in-law for the 1989 holiday season, she started a movement: Project Blue Light. Bucks County recently took part in its 13th commemoration of her desire to memorialize fallen officers each December. Levittown Now covered the seasonal tribute.

The wreath now hanging in the Bucks County Administration Building, Doylestown, is again the center of the local remembrance.

The 12 blue bulbs hung on it — honoring officers killed in the line of duty since 1914 — were sadly augmented by three additions for 2021.

The new lights commemorate:

  • Deputy Constable Erwin Mondeau, killed in 1898 while serving a warrant
  • Quakertown Police Officer Edwin Shearer, felled by a heart attack in 1936 during a fire response
  • Ranger Tom Booz, who died in 2020 of COVID-19

The Bucks County Commissioners, Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub, local police, and county law enforcement leaders were present at the ceremony marking the 2021 lighting.

In addition to community honors like the recent one in Doylestown, Project Blue Light invites member of the public to include blue bulbs amid their colorful holiday displays, inside or out. It suggests that the simple act is a way of memorializing the “men and women who continue to work in law enforcement, putting their lives on the line every day.”

More about Project Blue Light is in Levittown Now.

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