Heroic Cop Died On 9/11. Now, 18 Years Later, Daughter Becomes Police Officer To Honor His Legacy

Sep 24, 2019 by apost team

On September 11th of 2001, the entire world changed forever. Terrorists hijacked three commercial airplanes and crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington DC. Thousands of people lost their lives, including the brave men and women of the police force who rushed into the crash sites as everyone else was attempting to escape.

Ramon Suarez was one of those brave policemen of the NYPD who fearlessly ran inside the burning World Trade Center on the morning of September 11th. He rushed in and out of the burning towers, rescuing as many people as he could along with his partner. According to the New York Post, one of the people he rescued was a pregnant woman. This means that when Ramon helped her out, he was actually saving two lives, not just one.

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Tragically, he never made it back out the final time he ran into the building. Officer Ramon Suarez was one of the hundreds of rescue workers who perished when the towers collapsed.

Suarez left behind a daughter, Jillian, who at the time was a 9-year-old girl who loved her father with all her heart. The world mourned in the following weeks as images of tiny Jillian circulated on television and in newspapers, carrying a folded American flag as she walked alongside her father's casket during his funeral procession.

Many people may have occasionally wondered throughout the years what happened to that small girl, who proudly wore her father's uniform hat as she said goodbye to him one last time.

The world can stop wondering. Today, Jillian is wearing the same hat, but this time it's not her father's. Instead, it's her own. Jillian is now an NYPD police officer, following in her heroic father's footsteps.

Officer Jillian Suarez says that she decided in the months following her father's death that she would someday join the force. As she grew older and it became clear that she was serious about the vow she made as a child, her mother begged her not to do it. Understandably, Ramon's late wife couldn't fathom the idea of losing another loved one.

However, Jillian finally got her mother's blessing and was recently sworn in as an officer of the NYPD. Remarking on her father's legacy, Jillian said that it was a difficult tragedy to endure but that it didn't really hit her that he was actually gone until about 3 months later. "I think I handled it okay, but as I get older it gets harder because I understand the true meaning of it," she told Fox 5.

We wish Officer Jillian Suarez an illustrious career in her chosen profession. Show this story to anyone who could use some inspiration and a reminder that there's always a silver lining in any tragedy.