At the 18^th annual Idaho Peace Officers’ Memorial Ceremony today in Meridian, the name of the late Coeur d’Alene Police Sgt. Greg Moore was unveiled on the Idaho Peace Officers Memorial, the 71^st name to be added. Moore’s son Dylon and daughter Gemma, in her bright-red coat and frilly dress, helped remove the black ribbon that hid the newly carved name.

Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White told the hundreds assembled for the ceremony – including uniformed state and local police officers from across the state – “Our profession is hazardous, and the reminders of that danger are far too common.”

“It has been one year and two weeks since our agency lost a comrade and a friend, Sgt. Greg Moore,” he said. “I knew Greg as a fantastic officer and a friend.”

“We remember that he stood for the ideals and the principles that everyone in uniform stood for," White said. "The sacrifice made by Greg Moore and all the officers honored here today resonate throughout our communities. May their service and sacrifice inspire us all to do justice to the memories and the ideals they held dear.”

White wore a black band across his bright badge, which stood out on his somber, dark uniform.

The ceremony included a roll call of Idaho's fallen officers, starting from the 1880s, and proceeding slowly to the present day. Each officer’s name, agency, and date of death was read; then a bell was rung, and for each officer named, a long-stemmed rose was laid on the stone at the front of the memorial by another uniformed officer.

Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, who spoke and also presented the Idaho Medal of Honor to three Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies for a dangerous water rescue last September, told the crowd, “May I ask one thing for us as a society: That we have no more roses placed upon that stone.”