Officer of Love

A tribute to Earl Bertram who was a Champion Heavy Weight in the Navy. He was a police officer for JCPD in Louisville, KY and in 1963 was involved in an accident that changed many lives. From the book we read this...."WELL, I DON'T LOVE YOU "Those were the words that would haunt me for almost two decades of my life. Earl Bertram was my Father, my Daddy, my Dad. As a child, Earl's Father had been sent to prison for killing a man. At the age of 17, Earl joined the Navy and was stationed at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Earl represented the Navy in boxing and was undefeated with a 12-0 record. Earl was an officer for the Jefferson County Police Department in Louisville, KY. The year was 1963 and on a foggy, rainy morning, Earl and his partner were on Dixie Highway speeding to robbery call. Two Ft Knox soldiers, from the Army Base just south of Louisville, would not see the speeding police car because of the poor visibility that early morning. Many lives were about to change......