Remember – Fallen Agents Day – 2026

Thursday February 26^th, 2025 

A Day of Remembrance for the fallen and forgotten

As we start 2026, we solemnly mark the sixth year of our call for an industry-wide day of remembrance to honor murdered repossession agents. While 2025 was the first year since 2017 that no agents were murdered, we must remain vigilant and honor those Repossessors who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

This year, we will observe Fallen Agents Day on Thursday, February 26th—a dedicated time to reflect on and commemorate the many brave individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving their profession.

Why This Date?

This date was chosen was chosen to commemorate that deadly night in 1994 that Houston repossession agent Tommy Deen Morris was murdered on a double assigned repossession account. Tragically, the police and DA refused to press charges.

Please join us in observing Fallen Agents Day on Thursday, February 26^th.

This year, “Fallen Agents Day”, as it has become known, marks the 32nd anniversary of this miscarriage of justice.

Since the earliest days of the repo industry, these tragedies were swept under the rug and forgotten. But for every agent killed, there were families and friends whose wounds never healed. Lives destroyed over a stupid car. And it is more appropriate than ever that we show our love and support for the families, agencies and coworkers of these men both past and present.

With that in mind, we are again requesting that all those who wish to show their unity in honoring those who have fallen in the line of duty by the wearing of black arm bands in their memory.

Say A Name

This day is a day for all to reflect upon the safety and wellbeing of all the men and women in the repossession industry as well as a day of remembrance of those who have fallen in the line of duty. We respectfully call upon all of you to pay respect in your own way. This is a day for reverence and remembrance.

While we were blessed that no one died in the line of duty last year, many were seriously injured, often costing tens of thousands of dollars in surgery and months of recovery. As another way of showing your respect, a donation to the Recovery Agents Benefit Fund (RABF) is always welcome. While we are all pitching in to GoFundMe fundraisers, long before these funds are released, the RABF is usually the first to provide immediate financial relief to these agents and their families.

As an alternate form of remembrance, it was suggested by one agency owner, that we adopt a practice employed by a group known as “Wreaths Across America.” It is their practice that as they lay a wreath on the gravestones of fallen veterans that they also say their name out loud. By doing so, that person is not forgotten.

Absent wreaths or graves to lay them on, we can still employ this tradition in our own ways. Be it writing the name of a fallen agent on a whiteboard for the day, lighting a candle and saying their name or sharing their name and any details felt worthy of sharing on a bulletin to staff can ensure that the memories of duty and sacrifice that each of these men have suffered is never forgotten.

Allied Finance Adjusters President, George Badeen has printed a limited number of arm bands to commemorate this day. I am sure he would be more than happy to supply AFA members with what stock he does have.

Thank you,

Kevin Armstrong

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