Hundreds of New York City police officers honor former detective Luis Alvarez, the man who fought until his final days to extend health benefits for 9/11 first responders.
Mourners stand during the funeral Mass for Detective Luis Alvarez, at Immaculate Conception Church, in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Alvarez, 53, who died Saturday, June 29, 2019, after a three-year battle with colorectal cancer, fought until his final days for the extension of the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund.
“These heroes responded to calls for help. They did not hesitate; that’s who they were and still are,” Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at the funeral for Detective Luis Alvarez, 53. “He and they viewed their efforts as an obligation that they promised long ago to the people we serve.”“Before he became an American hero, he was mine,” said Alvarez’s son, David.in a hospice center after a three-year battle with colorectal cancer.
“I did not want to be anywhere else but ground zero when I was there,” Alvarez said at the hearing. “Now the 9/11 illnesses have taken many of us, and we are all worried about our children, our spouses and our families and what happens if we are not here.”“He told me he had been walking, and walking, and walking,” his sister Aida Lugo recounted Alvarez as saying the night before he died. “He wanted to sit in the chair.
After Alvarez and Stewart’s emotional testimony before Congress, the House Judiciary Committee voted in support of a bill that would extend funding through fiscal year 2090.
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