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Former Poly Prep football star remembered on 9/11

A former Poly Prep football star who lost his life on Sept. 11 is being remembered this week. Joe Della Pietra died at just 24 years old while working for Cantor-Fitzgerald in one of the World Trade

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Sep 12, 2012, 11:49 AM

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