NEW YORK -- The letters and photos were beyond value - some of the mementoes Joe Quinn still had to remember his older brother Jimmy, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Now they are gone, sullied by floodwaters and charred by fires that tore through the Queens community of Breezy Point last October during Superstorm Sandy.
From photos and letters to coffin liners and actual memorials, scores of families from Breezy Point and Rockaway - two Queens beachside neighborhoods hit particularly hard by both events - lost cherished reminders of loved ones taken by one tragedy that were then swept away by another.
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