Firefighter Joseph Angelini Sr
Rescue 1
Laid to Rest
on
September 22, 2001
October
23, 2001 -- Doubly heartbroken mourners yesterday saluted firefighter
Joseph Angelini Jr. - just a month after services were held
in the same church for his dad, who also died saving lives in
the Twin Towers attacks.
"They
are the first father-son firefighting team ever to die in New
York City," the Rev. Edward Seagriff said after the funeral
Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Lindenhurst, L.I.
Angelini,
of Ladder Co. 4, was the "spitting image" of his dad,
firefighter Joseph Angelini Sr., 63, of Rescue 1, the priest
said.
"He
was very humble. He was an excellent fireman," Seagriff
said of the younger hero. Michael Angelini, Joseph Jr.'s younger
brother, is also a firefighter and, while at the World Trade
Center disaster, was asked to help carry out FDNY chaplain Mychal
Judge, who was among the dead.
"Had
Michael not been asked to do that, it was a strong likelihood
he might have died as well," the priest said.
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