{"id":263483,"date":"2021-06-01T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/westchester-bridge-dedicated-to-fallen-cop-on-memorial-day\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:05:11","slug":"westchester-bridge-dedicated-to-fallen-cop-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/westchester-bridge-dedicated-to-fallen-cop-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#Westchester bridge dedicated to fallen cop on Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Westchester bridge dedicated to fallen cop on Memorial Day<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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An NYPD detective who was killed while serving with the US military in Afghanistan had a Westchester County bridge dedicated to him Monday.<\/p>\n

NYPD Commissioner Dermott Shea called fallen Detective Joseph Lemm \u201ca man who by any definition is a true American hero\u201d at the White Plains Avenue Bridge renaming in West Harrison near where the cop lived.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is especially meaningful that we are here today on Memorial Day, when we pay tribute to the service and yes, the sacrifice of our nation\u2019s fallen military heroes,\u201d Shea said. <\/p>\n

\u201cJoe served both his nation and the people of New York City with honor and with pride. He stood, he fought, and ultimately, he died in defense of the freedoms that we sometimes take for granted every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this memorial bridge, we continue to fulfill our promise to him and to you that we will never forget,\u201d said Shea at the span now known as the NYPD Det. Sgt. Joseph G. Lemm Memorial Bridge.<\/p>\n

Lemm died just before Christmas in 2015 when a suicide bomber drove a motorbike into his convoy as it patrolled a village near Bagram Airfield. Lemm, who was 45, and five other service members were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n

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Detective Joseph Lemm was among six Americans killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan in 2015.<\/figcaption>
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His widow, Christine DeGuisto, attended the bridge renaming with her two children and spoke about the importance of the span.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bridge today has such unbelievable meaning to me,\u201d the widow said. \u201cI cross over this bridge at least 20 times a day.\u201d<\/p>\n

She told the crowd of police, military and government officials and residents of how her husband taught his son to count to 10 by having him keep track of the number of overpasses on the way to and from daycare each day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember Joe with little Ryan in the car teaching him to count, count to 10, and he would count every single overpass to and from daycare,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then there was the funeral, the procession, Never in a million years did I think my little guy \u2014 now 4 years old \u2014 would be counting overpasses with police, firemen, first responders overhead on that same bridge that little Ryan learned to count up to 10 on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A bridge was renamed in honor of fallen NYPD detective Joseph G. Lemm.<\/figcaption>
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