As more than 6,000 firefighters and Emergency Medical Service workers in blue dress uniforms filed past during the annual FDNY Memorial Service Oct. 9, many family members were stoic. Others cried softly; one became so distraught later that Mayor Bloomberg embraced her and then talked quietly with her while she continued to sob.
The families were gathered by the Firemen’s Memorial on the Upper West Side to remember their loved ones who died in the last year while working for the Fire Department. Three of those who died were fatally sickened by their work at the World Trade Center after Sept. 11.
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