BLUE RIBBONS: HONORING THOSE WHO RISK THEIR LIVES EACH DAY TO KEEP US SAFE

Daniel Island resident Sherry Hannigan, along with daughter Katie and grandson Collin, this week initiated a visual tribute to law enforcement personnel nationwide – encouraging island residents to place blue ribbons around their trees as a symbolic gesture to tell police everywhere: we appreciate what you do and the risks you take each day. Said Hannigan: “After all the tragedies that have occurred throughout the country, the final straw was the senseless death of five police officers in Texas. As a law enforcement family, we felt this to the core.” On Saturday, Hannigan took snacks to our local Team 5; that afternoon, in response to a request from island request Karen Schinkel Raduazo, Hannigan and daughter Katie proposed placing blue ribbons on island trees – “this symbol,” said Hannigan, “which is black, blue black, is used to commemorate fallen law enforcement and to symbolize the relationship” that officers have within their community. Within 24 hours of posting a message on Facebook’s DI Mom’s page, “we had more messages and Facebook requests than we ever expected. We were all over the island . . . , a small grain of sand and now, we have an ‘island’.”

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