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Firefighters from around the country wear mourning badges during Tomasz Kaczowka’s funeral in Rochester, NY on Monday, December 31, 2012. Kaczowka, 19, was one of two firefighters who was shot and killed while responding to a fire on Christmas Eve by William Spengler in Webster, NY.