 During National Police Officers Memorial Week, Kentucky State Police honors fallen troopers by presenting wreaths at each one's burial site. However, during that week, a mother of a fallen trooper makes sure current KSP troopers are also taken care of by catering a lunch. In 2006, trooper Jonathan Leonard was involved in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 119 at Sydney while on duty. Now Leonard's mother, Karen, makes sure her son is remembered. It's just our way of showing our appreciation for KSP because we consider them family. It's almost 10 years since Jonathan's accident and it's just something that we do every year to try to do something just to show our appreciation. However, those at post nine say he will never be forgotten. He passed in 2006, but he'll never be forgotten here at post. He was one of a kind and we miss him every day. He tried to stay close to his mother and she's a big supporter of post nine and we're like family. Sergeant Hicks and trooper Leonard graduated cadet class together in 2003 and were stationed in Belfry together. Hicks says Leonard's personality is what he misses the most. He was just always smiling, locked the room up. He was just different. I mean, everybody wanted to be around him and he was somebody you would want to go on a call with. If he felt safe, he was a big muscular guy but he knew how to handle himself just very friendly to everybody and integrate for him and a great trooper. In honor of trooper Leonard's ultimate sacrifice, Kentucky 468 in Pike County was named trooper Jonathan K Leonard Highway in June of 2008. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB news, I'm Shelby Still.