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In his memoir Scars of the Badge, Tom Lee describes leaving an electrical engineering path after a university Police Explorers program leads him toward law enforcement. Dispatching gives him his first view of police work before academy training places him on the other side of the radio. Lee enters patrol knowing procedure, yet the calls he answers begin teaching him what a badge asks of the person wearing it. His career brings a firing that sends him away from policing before another agency gives him a way back. At the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office, repeated exposure to death begins following him home, while mental health assignments change how he thinks about people in crisis. Years into that career, a welfare call involving a suicidal man ends with Lee facing a crossbow.
Tom Lee’s Scars of the Badge is part police memoir, part inspirational Christian testimonial from Lee’s career in law enforcement. The writing is exceptional, and there’s a unique honesty that shows as he talks about what the badge can leave behind in the people who wear it. I love when he writes about field sobriety instruction. His gift for teaching shines brightest when cadets test drinking volunteers before discovering that one participant had been sober all along. At the same time, Lee’s return to faith gives the memoir a hopeful spirit, especially as serving with the Gideons gives him a way to offer New Testaments to first responders after Uvalde. Well written and moving, readers who enjoy Christian first responder memoirs will embrace this.
