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Remembering

Over the space of four days in August 2005, six members of the National Guard Alpha Company of the 1-111th Infantry of Philadelphia were killed in two separate attacks. The six men are remembered in different ways in the Philadelphia region.

Gennaro Pelliegrini, a former boxer and Philadelphia Police officer, is memorialized on the mural titled “My Life, My Path, My Destiny” by Cesar Viveros Hererra on East Lehigh Avenue near Tulip Street.
Gennaro Pelliegrini, a former boxer and Philadelphia Police officer, is memorialized on the mural titled “My Life, My Path, My Destiny” by Cesar Viveros Hererra on East Lehigh Avenue near Tulip Street.Read moreCHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer
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