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But they did, because one of theirs, Ryan Phillip Hendrix, was one of more than 300 officers who died in the line of duty in 2020. The traveling tribute to fallen officers pulled into Jackson Park on Monday afternoon to honor the deputy who was gunned down in the line of duty last Sept. 10. “He was the one next to me, the one under me,” said older brother Tim, an English teacher in Oman who was visiting his parents with his wife and two boys. “It’s sad to see, that there are so many people. You think of the families that are represented by those faces.”
That day, Dec. 8, was Heidi’s mom’s birthday. Ryan Patrick Hendrix was born at 12:24 a.m. on Dec. 9. “My parents said he was born 25 minutes late,” Heidi said. “But he was never a boy that was late. He was ahead of time.” At 9 pounds, 4 ounces, and 21 inches long, Ryan was the biggest baby Heidi and her husband, Don, would have. He was in the middle. Ryan had three older brothers, three younger brothers and a little sister. “The nurse said when she held him when he was first born that he tried to jump out of her arms,” Heidi recalled. Don added: “He was born with a six-pa...