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Hundreds of NY Police Honor Detective who Fought for 9/11 victims

Associated Press

   NEW YORK - Hundreds of New York City police officers honored a former
   detective who fought until his final days for the extension of health
   benefits for 9/11 first responders.

   The funeral ceremony for Detective Luis Alvarez, 53, is being held at
   Immaculate Conception Church in Astoria, New York.

   Alvarez died Saturday in a hospice center after a three-year battle
   with colorectal cancer. He attributed his illness to the three months
   he spent digging through rubble at the World Trade Center's twin towers
   after the terrorist attack.

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