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A Fort Worth police officer’s 8-year-old daughter is touching several hearts with a simple handwritten note she wrote for her dad as he traveled to a fellow officer’s funeral.

In the age of social media and texts, 8-year-old Emily still believes in writing a handwritten note. Before her dad, Fort Worth Police Sgt. Pablo Mendoza, left to attend a New York police officer’s funeral, she slipped a note she wrote on one of her index cards into his suitcase.

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(Fox 4)

The note read:

“Dear Dad, I’m sorry about NYPD officer. I pray and hope this violence stops. You are my hero. Be careful and be safe. Grace, Mom and I are going to miss you. WE LOVE YOU!!”

Mendoza traveled to New York with three other Fort Worth officers for the funeral of Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo, who was shot and killed last week. Mendoza said when he found his daughter’s note, it brought tears to his eyes.

"My daughters, they see the news and what's going on — the violence toward police,” Mendoza said. “So they pray for me and other police officers on a nightly basis."

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