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Photo: Ed Koch's headstone quotes Daniel Pearl's final words; Update: Koch and Pearl both died Feb. 1

Poynter reports that the late Ed Koch will be buried at Trinity Church Cemetery with a grave marker inscribed with the brave last words of Daniel Pearl, the journalist kidnapped and beheaded by jihadists in 2002.

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The former New York City mayor’s headstone was placed in 2009 and reads, “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish.”

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/297343688672161792

Koch wrote about “what’s on my tombstone, and why” in 2011:

On my tombstone, which awaits me at the Trinity Church nondenominational cemetery at 155th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, I had inscribed the last words of Daniel Pearl — uttered at his publicly viewed murder — which were, “My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am Jewish.” I believe those words should be part of the annual services on the Jewish High Holiday of Yom Kippur, and should be repeated by the congregants.

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More at Poynter, including an excerpt of a 2008 interview with Koch about the grave marker.

Update:

Koch died on the eleventh anniversary of Daniel Pearl’s murder.

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