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Strangers share in Bishop family's grief

One man in attendance arrived on a motorcycle whose license tag bore the name of his dead son.

Two women who came work together at a Bay Shore food pantry.

A former firefighter there had lost dozens of friends in the collapse of the World Trade Center.

None of them knew Staff Sgt. Keith Bishop, the Medford Green Beret who perished last month in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

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