Funeral for Former NE Iowa Soldier Today

NEW YORK (AP) — Uniformed police and U.S. military service officers have lined the streets of Manhattan today for the funeral for a U.S. soldier and New York City police detective, formerly of Northeast Iowa, killed in Afghanistan last week.

NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others attended the service for Joseph Lemm at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Lemm is formerly from Bernard, in Dubuque County. Some of Lemm's relatives from the Dubuque area have made the trip to New York for his funeral.

The 45 year old Lemm was a technical sergeant in the Air Guard's 105th Base Security Squadron and a 15-year member of the NYPD. He was killed last Monday when his patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber outside Bagram Air Base.

On Thursday, the remains of Staff Sgt. Louis Bonacasa, 31, of Long Island, will be returned in a ceremony at the F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard base in Westhampton Beach. Bonacasa was also killed in the attack.