Sanford Police Department Caught Passing Out WW2 Service Ribbons…(City George Zimmerman fatally wound Trayvon Martin in)

Last Monday when Doris Singleton of the Sanford Police Department took the stand, Jeremiah Workman sat up and took notice.  Workman, the marine who received our nation’s second highest honor, the Navy Cross, took special notice of the ribbon rack she was wearing and wrote the following on his Facebook page.

“Am I going blind, or is this police officer in the Zimmerman – Martin trial wearing ribbons that she doesn’t rate?’

According to the Military Times…

Workman got a hold of them and said they told him they didn’t have their own awards system, so they went to the Army-Navy store around the corner and picked out Defense Department military ribbons to fit their own format. The WWII was selected, the police department official told Workman, because they knew there weren’t many veterans from that period alive so they didn’t think people would notice.
“At the end of his explanation I thought to myself, ‘So that makes it all better now because these guys are dead?’ ” Workman said.  ”The fact that that was their response is still pretty shameful, I think.”
Workman said police departments allowing military veterans to wear ribbons they earned while serving on their police uniform is fine with him. If they earned it, they should be able to wear it, he said.
“But what kind of professional police department would send Bob the patrolman around the corner to go pick out some ribbons for our officers to wear when they do something heroic or have good service over the years?” he asked.
Workman said the police department official told him that they’re going to change to their own ribbon system, which he was glad to hear. Now he hopes other police departments doing the same will think about their own regulations and change them too, he added.

Two in particular stood out, Workman said:  The World War II Army of Occupation Medal…


and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal.


Others include:  The Air Force Combat Readiness Ribbon…


and the Philippine Independence ribbon.  (Previously awarded to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.)


I’m sure this probably  happened through no fault of the officer, but still others speculate that the heavy display of medals were worn to lend credibility to her testimony…as an attempt to show the jury she was truly a “distinguished” police office.  Ya think?
*H/T to WeeWeed for locating this WW2 ribbons chart: