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Sunday marked the second Father’s Day since Chicago Police Sgt. Chuck Mammoser lost his 9-year-old daughter to a rare, degenerative disease last May.
But he joined nearly 200 people Sunday morning at the Gold Star Families Memorial and Park, just east of Soldier Field, for an outdoor Mass to remember fallen officers and their families. Mammoser also was there to honor his late daughter.
“It’s just a great day to be out here,” he said. “To remember everybody lost.”
The Rev. Dan Brandt, a Roman Catholic Priest who is with the department’s Police Chaplains Ministry, celebrated a 30-minute Mass on a sun-soaked morning with a light breeze off Lake Michigan.
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