A police officer’s wife wants people to remember his service — not the gruesome way he died - The Washington Post

Brad Treat was a federal cop who patrolled 2 million acres of Montana wilderness: river rescues, drug busts, militias and timber thieves.

He was the law at the edge of the wild, returning home from each shift to his wife in their house just outside Flathead National Forest. Every day for many years, until he died last summer at age 38, just out of sight of his front window, alone as a bear attacked him.

A police officer’s wife wants people to remember his service — not the gruesome way he died - The Washington Post