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Annual Conference Banquet Speech 'The Trip To Bountiful'
Connecting The Dots
SD Police Chiefs’ Association & SD Sheriffs’ Association
Annual Conference Banquet Speech, May 1, 2014, Deadwood, SD
By Jo Vitek
SDPCA Past President, Chief of Police (retired)~Watertown, South Dakota

In 1953, American Playwright Henry Foote wrote The Trip to Bountiful. It’s a story about an elderly woman’s journey alone through Texas in search of her birthplace. As its name implies, Bountiful is beautiful. Imagine in your mind’s eye a cascading landscape of wildflowers and rolling countryside. For forty years, Carrie Watts yearned to return to her birthplace, to smell the fresh air, to see the Scissortail fly, and to feel the dirt of the land. If she could only return to Bountiful once more, her life would be made whole. She begins her journey equipped with nothing more than nostalgic memories of the past. Along her journey, she encounters numerous obstacles but her obvious and infectious spirit inspires, convicts, and transforms the lives of the strangers she meets. They too become devoted to her dream. Despite overwhelming odds, Mrs. Watts is successful in her …show more content…
In some instances we have young and inexperienced Chiefs and Sheriffs. On a regular basis, they will find themselves in difficult situations, facing circumstances, which cause enormous amounts of pressure and stress. They will be required to make split-minute decisions regarding liberty, life, and death. They will face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. It is imperative they are armed with and rooted in the ideals and principles upon which our country was founded. Having this knowledge and belief will guide and direct them. It will connect them to their higher purpose as noble guardians of sacred -God given rights of life—human life, liberty—freedom, and the pursuit of happiness—the golden apple. It will connect them directly to U.S. Constitution, the silver frame made to protect the golden
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