Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Emilio was the first person to make me feel welcome and relaxed in my first days as a new employee. What a magnificent sense of humor! He could truly and honestly make me laugh at almost anything. He was able to make everyone laugh.

"Emmy, how I wish you were still here to make me laugh again. You will never know how much I could have used your sense of humor and your way of looking at things to this very day. I and your closest friends miss you terribly still and I know will continue to do so for years to come"

We love you..............

Kathy Alvarez, 911 Calltaker
Hialeah Police Department

Emilio was only 27 years old and left behind a wife, a son Emilio,Jr. 7, and a daughter Jessica 4, loving parents, brother, grandmothers and they rest of his family and friends whom adored and Emilio and still do till this day almost 15 years later.

We love you Emilio and miss you every hour of the day....we miss his gentle smile, the big teddy bear he was and the best of friends to everyone he met....

Terry Miyares, officer's widow
Hialeah Police Dept.

I was choked up reading the message from Officer Miyares's children. I am so happy that at least he had the love of a wonderful woman and very sweet children. I too can be proud of him and I did not know him. My prayers are with you.

David Eskelin
citizen-former officer

It happened 15 years ago but it still happens today. Officer Miyares paid the ultimate price a price that the ordinary man and woman on the streets never real think about and thats a life of a Police officer. That Officer is a brother or sister and uncle or auntie, a father or mother. What he or she really is a hero or an angel and thank god for the brave fight that they put up against the evil that exsists on our streets.

Rest in peace my friend and god protect our angels in blue who patrol our streets.

Senior Constable Mark Daley
Australian Police Officer

Although I didn't have the opportunity to meet you, I will never forget your supreme sacrifice.

Officer Pedro R. Delgado
Hialeah

Dear Emilio:
Yesterday, 5/10/2001 Our family, friends and our communities gather to "Celebrate" your lives here on earth. We had our City and County Memorial Ceremonies, to remember you and all your other brothers and sisters in blue who have "Given their life for our country"/ We love you all and "rest at peace, you will never be Forgotten"

Tomorrow, your kids, your mom and myself will be going to Washington DC for the National Police Memorial and Seminars
and there we will visit with old friends and meet new ones.

We love you and miss you everyday.

Your wife and kids

Terry, Emilio jr and Jessica Miyares

Terry Miyares, officer's widow
Hialeah Police Dept.

I WAS VISITING MIAMI ON BUSINESS AT THE TIME WHEN I WENT SHOPPING IN THE PALM SPRINGS PLAZA ON 103RD STREET. ON ENTERING A DISCOUNT STORE I OBSERVED TWO SUSPICOUS INDIVIDUALS IN AN OTHERWISE EMPTY STORE AND ENQUIRED OF THE CASHIER,(A TEENAGER) IF SHE WANTED ME TO CALL THE COPS. SHE SAID YES AND I IMMEDIATELY LEFT THE STORE DROVE TO THE INTERSECTION IN SEARCH OF POLICE PATROLS WHERE I SAW TWO MOTOCYCLE OFFICERS WAITING FOR THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS TO CHANGE. I PROCEEDED TO MAKE AN ILLEGAL U-TURN TO ATTRACT THEIR ATTENTION AND SURE ENOUGH THEY RESPONDED AND ENTERED THE CARPARK BEHIND ME. I INFORMED THEM OF THE SITUATION AND THEY PROCEEDED TO THE DISCOUNT STORE. I CONTINUED SHOPPING AND ON LEAVING THE PLAZA SOME TWO HOURS LATER I OBSERVED THE GLARE OF TV NEWS CREW LIGHTS, ETC. AND TO MY HORROR I FOUND OUT THAT ONE OF THE OFFICERS HAD BEEN SHOT BY ONE OF THE GOONS WHO WAS IN THE STORE EARLIER THAT AFTERNOON. I MUST CONFESS THAT SEEING THE FURNERAL MOTORCADE ON TV THAT WEEKEND AND THE YOUNG FAMILY THAT WAS LEFT IN BEREAVMENT DID GIVE ME A GUILT TRIP - HAVING LITERALLY CALLED A COP TO AN ANTICIPATED CRIME SCENE AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO HIS DEATH. I HAVE ALWAYS REMEMBERED HIM AND HIS FAMILY IN MY PRAYERS AND HAVE SAID AND WILL CONTINUE TO SAY DECADES OF THE HOLY ROSARY FOR THE BLESSED REPOSE OF HIS SOUL. A YOUNG AND DEDICATED OFFICER GONE TOO SOON SERVING MANKIND AND MAKING THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE. GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU AND MAY YOU REST IN THE BOSSOM OF THE RISEN CHRIST AND HIS BLESSED MOTHER, THE VIRGIN MARY QUEEN OF HEAVEN.

Anonymous

Terry:

Thank you for e-mailing that poem written for Wayne, I know all of you are very proud for what he lived and died for, as proud as we still are of Emilio...take care and God Bless you,

Terry

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

“My Badge at Heart”

We band of Brothers and Sisters have fought so very hard
Protected our streets, our people, their homes
Protected the children, the aged and the tired
Protected each other, our brothers and our sisters
We prayed every night and every day since we swore to protect and uphold
God, let us return to those who too are so brave
Our mothers and fathers our brothers and sisters
God let me once again hold my wife, my sons and my daughters
Allow me to picnic with my family, celebrate a wedding, and sing happy birthday
God, please let me live to teach my sons to play catch and to watch my daughters dance
Please let me grow old with love, compassion, and strength
But most of all God, if you need me to lay down my life for another
Please, please tell my family, my loved ones, and my friends
I died not in vain, I sought no heroics
I died doing what I was proud to do
I died being who I was proud to be
I died, my badge at heart

Written in Memory of P.O. Wayne A. Leon EOW 6-25-00
and
Dedicated to all Blue Angels and their families
Terry
CPD, Retired

CPD

Terry, I knew Emilio, and Pete Cainas, and I have met Hugo Becker's daughter Anne. I can only say they were good people taken long before their time to go. No one could love someone as much as you loved and still love Emilio. I was working the night , when both officers were taken. May God have a special place in heaven for all the slain officers.

Offficer Jonathan Peiser
Hialeah PD Retired 93

Hi Terry. I dont have your e mail address. Mine please contact me so i can save it. I will e mail you as soon as you send me one. :) God bless.

Andi

To our Police Officer friend: Is always nice to hear from people who leave reflections here on Emilio's page, and when I hear from someone who met Emilio, his co workers or someone close to our hearts it feels wonderful, I am very glad that you got to see The Hialeah PD Memorial is an Honor to us, thinking that Emilio is gone but he will never be forgotten, just like all his other brothers and sisters in blue...

God Bless you and take care

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

Hi Andi. It was nice to hear from you..please, e-mail me that way we can stay in touch, can't wait for next year Police Week, it will be COPS 20th Year Anniversay...Stay safe, love

Terry

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

My first time ever on the streets was as a ride-along with Hialeah PD. A friend of mine from college had an uncle who was Captain of the patrol division for Hialeah PD and I had, at the time, an interest in law enforcement as a career.

When you enter the lobby to Hialeah's station, there are plaques on the wall memorializing the officers killed in the line of duty. Officer Miyares was one of them. It was a sobering moment for me, realizing that this career choice was not the safest around. When I asked some of the officers I met about Officer Miyares, they either had known him or knew him through reputation. According to all I spoke with, he was a good man and a good cop.

Mrs. Miyares, I can't imagine the loss you suffered that day (and still suffer). It seems to me that Emilio has touched far more lives in his death than he did in life... and your work today for COPS and those who lose a loved one in this line of work is a true testimony to the kind of man he was and the kind of woman that you are.

I would like to offer my condolences to you and your family.

Anonymous Police Officer

Hello Terry.

Just popping back in to see how you are doing. I havent talked to you in sometime. Just wanted to say hello. Im also starting to make reservations for police week next year. I will talk to you later. God Bless.

Andi

My dear friend:

I am sorry about your dear friend, but you can be sure that he will never be forgotten, he forever will be a Hero and as long as there is someone who has him in their hearts and their minds, he will be here "among us" for always and a day...

God Bless you and thank you for your words, If there is anything I can ever do, please do not hesitate and contact me through COPS-....

Terry

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

Ms. Miyares,
It appears you have heard this many times before. You are an inspiration. I within the last month lost my very dear friend, Deputy Quarles (EOW: 6-11-03) and can not imagine what you must have gone through as a wife, because as a friend my world has been turned upside down. The loneliness can be overwhelming, even after almost a month. I find myself worried that people will forget about Scott. I now come to this page on a daily basis to check the numbers. I have also tried to accept the fact that as I must work with the local law enforcement so closely that I may face this again (God willing , I hope not!). This is the 1st reflection I have left as I do not like for others to know my emotions. You have moved me though and given me hope that Scott will not be forgotten, at least not by me. This makes me cry just as I write, but I suppose that is a good thing as some would say this is therepuetic. Anyway, know that you are in my prayers. You have no idea how many lives you have touched by leaving a reflection and then others coming to your husband's page, you have done well. Thank you. You will have to forgive me as I still prefer to remain anonymous.

Anonymous

Dear Greg

Thank you for you kinds words, it is an Honor to know that just because I come to this site and write to each family, it really makes a difference in someone else's life. I do this from the heart and I know that Emilio still here with us through everything we do helping others surviving families...

You take care and if there is anything we can do please call on us we are here...

God Bless you

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

Mrs. Miyares,

I know you have heard and seen this a thousand times, but I wanted to honor you for what you do at this site. I cannot say that I know how you feel, as I have never lost someone so close to me in such a manner. But I feel it must take great courage to come to this site, and see his picture as often as you do, knowing what happened. You are an inspiration to me, and when I get discouraged in this job, I do think about you, and what you do. Then I know that I can and must go on. I thank you for what you do, and pray that I have just half of the effect that your husband had, and still has, on the people he had encountered.

With God's love,

Officer Greg Cloud
Corsicana PD, Texas

Officer Greg Cloud
Corsicana, Texas PD

Dear Captain Wright:


Thank you very much for your words, they brought tears to my eyes..You are right, it is hard been a police officers wife, but when that officer loves what he does, it makes us very proud of what they do; and if the time comes for that officer to make the supreme sacrifice we as wife's know that they died doing what they always loved to do...I am pretty sure that your wife is very proud of you, keep up the good work and PLEASE, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.

God Bless you

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

Dear Terry,
I first of all want to thank you from the very depths of my heart for your dedication to your husband's memory. I am literally brought to tears by reading the reflections you have left for him and others. As I have gone through my career I haven't always done or said all the right things but God knows I have tried to. One thing I have learned though is how hard it is to be a policeman's wife. Behind every good policeman is an even stronger woman. My wife keeps me sane, my wife keeps me grounded. If I die today, I can promise you my wife will be the last thing on my mind. I believe it's that way for every policeman. Once again, thank you for your awesome dedication to your husband as well as countless other officers. You are an inspiration to us all. There is a special place in heaven for people like you. God Bless You!

Captain Scott Wright
Mount Holly Police Department, NC

Well Emilio here we are again, came back from Police Week, we had a good and emotional time as always, your son Emilio worked as a mentor with COPS KIDS, your daughter Jessica took her family for the first time, her son and husband, you should of seen our grandson Javier, he had the greatest time with everyone around him, we took pictures of him at the wall next to your name, as you can see we will never stop going to visit you at the wall, your mom went with us again this year and met with a few parents just like her whom had lost their children...I hope you keep on watching over us and help us help other survivors who are going through the same pain we went and still are going through...

We love you, God Bless you

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

To my friends Terry, Andi and Dispatcher Kinsey

Tears rolled down my face reading your reflections:

To Terry, Bob and Emilio were good friends and our family loves him as part of ours, when I heard of Waynes death it was sad as I knew his uncle, when he was honor in DC I met his dad; what a surprise to come back today from Police Week and see that you wrote to me, thank you.....

Andi, I am so sorry that I did not meet you in DC, I know we will, I looked for you, my son told me that he met you and he gave me your note, thank you friend for been there for us the survivors and to honor the ones gone before us....

Kinsey, thank you for attending police week to honor Officers gone before us and for saying so many beautiful things about my family, my son Emilio was also there but he was working with 'COPS KIDS' at the time we met..

Hope to see you all next year.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL

Terry Miyares, surviving spouse
Officer Emilio F. Miyares, Hialeah PD, FL, EOW 11/6/86

There are so many here that I never met but feel as though I know from what I've heard from others. Emilio Miyares is one of them. I just returned from Police Week and met Emilio's wife Terry, daughter Jessica, son in law Javier and grandson Javi--what a cutie pie!--for the first time. Emilio would be so proud of them all. It was my first time at Police Week, and it was hard and easy all at the same time. I kept seeing names I recognized on the nametags and kept having to remind myself we hadn't met yet. I made a lot of new friends and can't wait to go back next year.

A special thanks to Terry for the love and support she gives everyone.

Dispatcher K. Kinsey
Chattanooga, TN PD

Hi Terry.

I tried to find you for police week but I missed. I found a woman for C.O.P.S. that was staying in your hotel that knew you. But You werent at the memorial at that time. I also left you a note on the memorial. I hope you got it. Your children and grandson are very beautiful. I saw their pictures. Well, I do plan on going back to DC next year for the memorial, so we will have to meet up there...Take care and God Bless.

Andi.