Rudolph William Louis Giuliani, born in 1944, was brought up within a tight family circle filled with uncles who wore the uniforms of the police and fire departments.

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Another one executes a terrifying circle in the air before resuming its upward flight, a plume of smoke and fire thundering out behind it.

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