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For Firefighter/Artist, 9/11 Horrors First Inspired, Then Took Deadly Toll

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 2/3/14

Jef Campion had always been an artist, as long as Louie Vellucci knew him. When they were 15, in Yonkers in the mid-’70s, it was mainly album covers, which he’d paint onto the back of denim vests—bands like Judas Priest and Cheap Trick. They became popular enough that he started taking requests from strangers. He later went to art school and expanded his repertoire, creating huge, intricately-tiled mirrors that hung in homes and restaurants around the country.

‘A World of PTSD’

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