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Slain officer is buried

In a ceremony at once tear-filled and tired, Philadelphia Police Officer John Pawlowski was laid to rest in a wind-whipped corner of Bensalem's Resurrection Cemetery, the fourth police officer killed in the line of duty to be buried there since September.

Officer John Pawlowski's widow, Kim (right), five-months pregnant, and her parents Ed and Sharon Leigh, are overcome with grief as they follow the casket out of the cathedral after this afternoon's Funeral Mass. (Clem Murray / Staff Photographer)
Officer John Pawlowski's widow, Kim (right), five-months pregnant, and her parents Ed and Sharon Leigh, are overcome with grief as they follow the casket out of the cathedral after this afternoon's Funeral Mass. (Clem Murray / Staff Photographer)Read more
    by Brittany Talarico, Sam Wood and Larry King, Inquirer Staff Writers
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