Age six at our summer bungalow in Island Park.

The Kelly family circa 1949. Standing, left to right: Donald, Leonard, Kenneth. Seated: Mary, Dad, Mom, and me.

With Veronica at Island Park Beach, 1963.

Our wedding reception at the officers’ club at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, December 14, 1963.

Aboard the USS Monticello after Operation Harvest Moon, Vietnam, 1965.

After returning from Vietnam, I fed five-month-old Jim for the first time in Laguna Beach, California, 1966.

Our young family in Baldwin, New York, 1969.

My reward for graduating at the top of my police academy class was the Hiram C. Bloomingdale Trophy, an engraved revolver. NYPD

Graduating with my JD from St. John’s University School of Law, 1971.

With Jim in a radio car on Fifth Avenue in the Twenty-Third Precinct in East Harlem, 1971.

As captain of the Emergency Service Unit, I reported to the scene of a double homicide in an East Harlem grocery store, 1980. NYPD

Speaking with a community leader in the 106th Precinct in Queens—known as the Stun Gun Precinct. Mike Lipack/New York Daily News

Being sworn in by Mayor David Dinkins as the thirty-seventh New York City police commissioner in 1992. City of New York

The cover of New York magazine, February 22, 1993. Harry Benson/New York magazine

Testifying at my Senate confirmation hearing for the U.S. Customs commissioner post in 1998. U.S. Customs Service

Following a 1993 gun bust, I held a press conference with Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau. Betsy Herzog

With Greg in Cité Soleil, Haiti, 1994.

After a firefight between U.S. Army and Haitian troops in 1994, Marine reserve Major Mario LaPaix and I carried a wounded man.

After the peaceful transfer of power in Haiti, we caught a ride back to the U.S. on Air Force One with President Clinton. The White House

In Paris in 1998 in the office of Felix Rohatyn, then U.S. ambassador to France, with stolen religious artifacts recovered by the U.S. Customs Service. U.S. State Department

Recovering the remains of a fallen NYPD officer at Ground Zero in 2002. NYPD

President Bush visited the NYPD Command Center in 2004. Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki are on the right. NYPD

In 2011 President Obama visited us at the Real Time Crime Center at police headquarters. NYPD

Keeping watch in Times Square, New Year’s Eve 2011. NYPD

Opening day at the 2011 NYPD United Cricket Youth League in Kissena Park, Queens. Hundreds of city teenagers have competed in the popular police-run cricket and soccer youth programs since 2008. NYPD

In 2013 I served as grand marshal of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and posed for pictures on the cathedral steps with two cardinals, Timothy Dolan and Edward Egan. Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images

Conferring with Mayor Bloomberg at the city’s Office of Emergency Management as we prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Irene in August 2011. NYPD

Visiting with members of the NYPD Bomb Squad and their bomb-sniffing dog, Winston. NYPD

Playing the bongos at a benefit for New York’s famed Apollo Theater at Ron Perelman’s home in the summer of 2011. Kevin Mazur/WireImage

Meeting Pope Benedict in 2008 at the papal nuncio’s residence in New York. NYPD

Manhattan College celebrated the dedication of the Raymond W. Kelly ’63 Student Commons on October 15, 2014. Manhattan College president Brennan O’Donnell is on the left; Tom and Mary Alice O’Malley are on the right. Chris Taggart/Manhattan College

The family at the Waldorf Astoria for the 2012 New York City Police Foundation Gala. From left: Jim, his wife, Jennifer, me, Veronica, and Greg. NYPD