Edward F. McDermott served in the U.S. Air Force.
Lieutenant Edward McDermott suffered a fatal heart attack while assigned a communications command post at the onset of the 1980 Miami Riots. He was leading a caravan of National Guardsmen along South Dixie Highway when he collapsed in the area of SW 17th Avenue. Lieutenant McDermott was a U.S. Air Force veteran and had served with the Miami Police Department for 24 years.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Lieutenant McDermott gave the Miami Police Department 24 years.
Thank you for your service to the Miami community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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