Operation Blue Light Presentation – December 8, 2011
Members of the Feasterville Business Association and law enforcement officials gather to pose after a blue light holiday tree lighting ceremony paying tribute to the memory of fallen police officers during the holiday period. Sharing the moment at the Lower Southampton Township Library in Feasterville, PA, are, (from left) Ray Greenberg, vice president of the FBA, William Wiegman, Jr., Lower Southampton Township chief of police, Bucks County Sheriff Edward “Duke” Donnelly, Michael J. Hughes, FBA blue light event co-chairperson, Dennis I Markowitz, president of the FBA and John J. Brinkmann, FBA blue light event co-chairperson. Project Blue Light was started in 1989 by Dolly Craig to honor the memory of her late son-in-law, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Gleason, killed in the line of duty in 1986. Several years ago Craig sent her holiday blue light message to Concerns Of Police Survivors, Inc. (COPS) saying she was placing two blue lights in her window during the holiday period, one in memory of Gleason and one remembering his wife, Pam, who was killed in an automobile accident in 1988. Craig is now deceased but her idea is her legacy. Project Blue Light has grown into a national program and burns bright in the hearts of 10,000 surviving families who comprise COPS, a national non-profit organization that assists surviving families of officers killed in the line of duty as they rebuild their lives.
