Project 'Blue Light' Ceremony Honors Fallen Montco Law Enforcement

HORSHAM TOWNSHIP, PA —For 29 members of Montgomery County's fallen law enforcement, Tuesday's Blue Light ceremony will pay tribute to their service with a light.

Horsham Township will hold its 24th Annual Project Blue Light Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. at the Horsham Fire Company, Battalion 2. (Parking at the Municipal Complex, 1025 Horsham Road).

"Please consider joining us as we give thanks to those officers who gave their lives in service to us all," Horsham ChATs posted on its Facebook page. "This event is free, family-friendly, and a great way to show support for our police officers around the region."

Law Enforcement officers from all over Montgomery County will be in attendance.

Refreshments will be served following the ceremony, which remembers officers throughout Montgomery County.

During the ceremony, a tree will be lit directly across from the Horsham Township Municipal Complex in Deep Meadow Park. Attendees can watch the ceremony from inside the fire substation.

Project Blue Light is a nationwide observance begun more than 30 years ago by Dolly Craig of Philadelphia.

In 1988, Craig placed two blue candle lights in the window of her home: one in honor of her son-in-law, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Gleason, killed in the line of duty 1986; and one for her daughter Pam, Gleason’s wife, who died in an auto crash in 1988. The couple had six children.

Craig wrote of her simple gesture to Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.), an organization dedicated to families of fallen officers, which helped the idea take hold nationally.