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Friends, family remember slain Bronx soldier

Before Isaac T. Cortes died a hero in Iraq this week, friends and relatives in his Bronx neighborhood knew him as the kid who helped elders carry their groceries and, the first one to embrace childhood dares.

"If there was a fence to hop, Isaac was the first to say 'I'll do it,'" remembers his childhood pal, said John Harvey, 29, who grew up in the same apartment building in Parkchester with...

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