New York, United States. 30th Dec, 2015. Mayor de Blasio (center) watches as the flag-draped coffin of Joseph Lemm is taken back to the hearse following the funeral service. Thousands of elected officials, police officers, and armed services personnel converged upon St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan to pay final respects to Technical Sergeant Joseph Lemm, a 15-year veteran of the NYPD and active Air National Guardsman who died in Afghanistan in a suicide bombing on the 21st of December. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/Alamy Live News

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