Most, if not all, of you who are reading this heard about the recent deaths of four members of the Ohio National Guard who were killed in action in Afghanistan. One of those, Capt. Nicholas Rozanski, is a resident of Dublin, OH. His father, a former Mayor of Dublin, and his brother, are both employees of the City of Dublin. Tomorrow Capt. Rozanski will be laid to rest at the Dublin Community Cemetery in downtown Dublin. The funeral procession is expected to be large and two lanes of the main street going through downtown Dublin will be turned in to a parking lot for cars in the procession. In addition, shuttles will be run from a local shopping center parking lot to the cemetery.
The funeral procession will be large and will cause significant traffic delays in downtown Dublin. As a city and a police department we are trying to get the word out through phone calls, press releases, our city website and social media, so that we can do our best to minimize the inconvenience this will cause.
I'll be working in the dispatch center for the Dublin Police Dept. while all this is going on. A few years back I was working when we had a similar funeral procession. That was for a Columbus Police Officer and Dublin resident who was killed in the line of duty. The procession for that funeral was huge. Even shutting down part of the street and using it as a parking area was not nearly enough room to handle all of the police cruisers that took part.
Probably the most disturbing part of that day, and something I hope doesn't happen tomorrow, was when someone called to complain about the funeral procession. The procession was huge and happening at the time of day it did, I took a call from an employee at a local business. He was upset because he couldn't get to the Bob Evans Restaurant on Post Rd. for lunch that day. I suggested that he go south to Tuttle Crossing Blvd. where there were several other restaurants (including another Bob Evans). He made the comment that, "I realize this guy died, but the rest of us still need to go on with our lives and it's frustrating when you can't get to lunch." I reminded him that he could get to lunch at any number of restaurants on Tuttle Crossing, and that it's also "frustrating" when a police officer is killed in the line of duty. At that point I think the man realized that calling a police department to complain about the police funeral keeping him from one restaurant was probably NOT going to get him the response he was hoping for.
We're not going to stop the procession so that you can get to that restaurant, just like we wouldn't stop any other funeral procession to get you to where you want to go to lunch.
Please keep the family of Capt. Nicholas Rozanski in your prayers. If you happen to be travelling through Dublin tomorrow, and get caught up in traffic because of his funeral, please keep this in mind...you will eventually get to your destination, your life will go on...and it will continue on because of people like Capt. Rozanski and the other men and women who have died in service to you.
The funeral procession will be large and will cause significant traffic delays in downtown Dublin. As a city and a police department we are trying to get the word out through phone calls, press releases, our city website and social media, so that we can do our best to minimize the inconvenience this will cause.
I'll be working in the dispatch center for the Dublin Police Dept. while all this is going on. A few years back I was working when we had a similar funeral procession. That was for a Columbus Police Officer and Dublin resident who was killed in the line of duty. The procession for that funeral was huge. Even shutting down part of the street and using it as a parking area was not nearly enough room to handle all of the police cruisers that took part.
Probably the most disturbing part of that day, and something I hope doesn't happen tomorrow, was when someone called to complain about the funeral procession. The procession was huge and happening at the time of day it did, I took a call from an employee at a local business. He was upset because he couldn't get to the Bob Evans Restaurant on Post Rd. for lunch that day. I suggested that he go south to Tuttle Crossing Blvd. where there were several other restaurants (including another Bob Evans). He made the comment that, "I realize this guy died, but the rest of us still need to go on with our lives and it's frustrating when you can't get to lunch." I reminded him that he could get to lunch at any number of restaurants on Tuttle Crossing, and that it's also "frustrating" when a police officer is killed in the line of duty. At that point I think the man realized that calling a police department to complain about the police funeral keeping him from one restaurant was probably NOT going to get him the response he was hoping for.
We're not going to stop the procession so that you can get to that restaurant, just like we wouldn't stop any other funeral procession to get you to where you want to go to lunch.
Please keep the family of Capt. Nicholas Rozanski in your prayers. If you happen to be travelling through Dublin tomorrow, and get caught up in traffic because of his funeral, please keep this in mind...you will eventually get to your destination, your life will go on...and it will continue on because of people like Capt. Rozanski and the other men and women who have died in service to you.
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