New York, United States. 30th Dec, 2015. Ryan Lemm, the son of Joseph Lemm, sits atop an NYPD officer's shoulders as his mother, Christine, watches the coffin being taken from the hearse. 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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