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ITEM 4 · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026 — NO WALKERTON NAME ON THE ROLLS REACHED
Crime & Public Safety prints the police test whole — no Walkerton officer appears on the Officer Down Memorial Page or the Indiana memorial rolls as searched. For the fire service, the instruments are the state's own: the Indiana Fallen Firefighters memorial record and the national line-of-duty-death rolls, searched for Walkerton and Lincoln Township departments in November 2026. No name from this ground stands on either roll as reached: no Walkerton firefighter is recorded as killed in the line of duty, at any date, in the memorial record. The negative prints at reached strength — the rolls are compilations, and a death in the volunteer era, before systematic recording, could stand outside them; the branch states the limit rather than hiding it — but it prints as a finding, joining the police negative to make the branch's roll complete in the only form this town's record allows: two services, two searched rolls, no names. If the town ever raises the question at a memorial site of its own, the record it will consult is this one, and the answer it will find is that the town's firefighters and officers, in a century and a half of fires and calls, are not recorded as having given a life in the line of duty — a negative any town would be glad to have documented rather than assumed.
Principal sources: Indiana fallen-firefighter memorial record and national LODD rolls, searched November 2026; Crime & Public Safety (the police-side test, printed whole in the banked set).