--- description: Former President George W. Bush spoke at a memorial service in Dallas on Tuesday for five police officers killed last week. title: Read George W. Bush's Speech at the Dallas Shooting Memorial Service image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14e242cc512377c6/69889ba43c163914ff45e00e/bush-dallas-memorial-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Read George W. Bush's Speech at the Dallas Shooting Memorial Service by [Julissa Higgins](/author/julissa-higgins/) ## Julissa Higgins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 12, 2016 7:57 PM CUT  George W. Bush speaks during an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, on July 12, 2016. George W. Bush speaks during an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, on July 12, 2016.Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images by [Julissa Higgins](/author/julissa-higgins/) ## Julissa Higgins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 12, 2016 7:57 PM CUT Former President George W. Bush spoke at a memorial service in Dallas on Tuesday for five police officers killed last week. “With their deaths, we have lost so much,” Bush said. “We are grief stricken, heartbroken and forever grateful. Every officer has accepted a calling that sets them apart.” Below is a transcript of the remarks he delivered just moments before President Barack Obama also took the stage: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4403510/george-w-bush-speech-dallas-shooting-memorial-service/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4403510/george-w-bush-speech-dallas-shooting-memorial-service/"},"headline":"Read George W. Bush's Speech at the Dallas Shooting Memorial Service","datePublished":"2016-07-12T19:57:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:12:35.131Z","description":"\"We are grief stricken, heartbroken and forever grateful\"","url":"https://time.com/4403510/george-w-bush-speech-dallas-shooting-memorial-service/","keywords":["Dallas"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14e242cc512377c6/69889ba43c163914ff45e00e/bush-dallas-memorial-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julissa Higgins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julissa-higgins/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14e242cc512377c6/69889ba43c163914ff45e00e/bush-dallas-memorial-speech.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-CRIME-POLICE-SHOOTING-OBAMA","caption":"George W. Bush speaks during an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, on July 12, 2016.","creditText":"Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4403510/george-w-bush-speech-dallas-shooting-memorial-service/","name":"Read George W. Bush's Speech at the Dallas Shooting Memorial Service"}}]}] ```