A family's tragedy, a nation's loss

Florida Keys News

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

A family's tragedy, a nation's loss

The death of a sister-in-law on 9/11 brought Emil LaVache closer to his brother

BY ADAM LINHARDT Citizen Staff
alinhardt@keysnews.com

There is a dash of Brooklyn behind every word spoken by longtime Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputy and retired Army Lt. Col. Emil LaVache.

The 83-year-old native New Yorker who graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School -- "It was one of the top-ranked high schools in the nation and still is," he is quick to announce -- talked with a bit of Big Apple dialect that has...

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