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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
A father's death does not deter son from attending SOTU
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A guest of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, will head to Capitol Hill Tuesday to listen to President Bush's State of the Union speech, hours after learning his father died. Cesar Borja, a retired New York City police officer who worked at Ground Zero, died Tuesday at Mt. Sinai Hospital as he waited for a lung transplant. Borja started getting sick in the summer of 2002 and in the fall of 2006 was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. His son, Ceasar Red Borja, decided to attend the speech "to show and remind people this shouldn't happen to anyone else," according to a Clinton aide. -- CNN Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash |
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