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Ten years ago this week, Kansas City, Missouri, firefighters Larry Leggio and John Mesh were killed when part of a burning building collapsed on top of them.

Mesh, a Northeast Kansas City native, was survived by his wife and four daughters. His girls were between the ages of 10 and 17 when he died.

Recently, I had the honor of sitting down with three of them at his gravesite. The fourth has young children and could not take part in the interview.

The sisters shared their memories of the awful night they lost their dad, how his memory endures today and what this anniversary means to them.

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The girls grew up with a couple of very powerful truths.

The first: "Being the daughter of a fireman is reall

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