Some of it you had to be there for.

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Sicarii — Latin for dagger-men. They never wrote a word of it down. Their enemy did it for them.

Lately

Recognized for Bravery

MikeWhisky · 2026-08-21 20:57:22

These newspaper articles tells the story of my actions that saved the life of a six-year-old girl who had fallen into the Waikato River near Cambridge. While off duty and walki…

My first week

daggerman · 2026-08-19 09:53:38

It was within my first week in the Police. As everyone knows, the general rule when you're that green is that you can barely breathe without permission—let alone drive a police ve…

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You have one of these

Everyone who served has a story worth keeping.

Yours does not have to be dramatic and it does not have to be tidy. Daggermen exists so the ones that were never written down stop being lost — and the people reading them are the ones who get it.

Reading is open to anyone and always will be. Writing takes a membership — a person reads every request, no algorithm and no form that approves itself. That is slower, and it is the whole reason the people on the other side are worth writing for.

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Pseudonymous by default — most people here use a handle, not their name. Every photograph is stripped of its location on the way in.