Deputies Recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month Starting this week, 139 agency members at the Harford County Sheriff’s Office will wear pins to demonstrate their dedication to the fight against breast cancer. This special initiative, started by Major Jack Meckley, has been well received by agency members, who bought their own pins to wear during the month of October. For Major Meckley, the project was personal. “After I lost my sister-in-law to breast cancer in 2006, and watched my wife struggle with her own diagnosis of the BRCA2 gene and subsequent preventive surgeries in 2008, I was struck with the realization that we all have stories. Cancer knows no boundaries.” Major Meckley continued, “As deputies, we come to work to help community members while they are at a vulnerable point in their life. We forget that many times, those deputies are dealing with personal tragedy in their own lives, as well. Our job is to protect life, and it is heartbreaking to see those we love, suffer.” Sheriff Bane offered, “Statistics indicate that one in eight women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime. They are not just a statistic; they are our mothers, wives, sisters, aunts, friends, family, and neighbors. One in eight means we all know someone. This is just one small way we can show those who are fighting this terrible disease and the families who care for them, that they are not alone.”
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:46:34 +0000
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