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Photos: Fallen Alaska law enforcement officers remembered

The widow of Alaska state trooper Tage Toll, who died during a search-and-rescue flight more than two years ago, on Friday told a large crowd that no two losses are the same.

"Tage's mom and I are two people who lost the same man," said Nikki Toll, "but our losses are very different. The loss of a son cannot be compared to the loss of a husband."

Nikki Toll said in the two years since her husband died, everything about her family life has changed. Their home is not a constant shrine to his death, she said, but her three sons honor Tage by striving to be "good men."

Thursday would have been the couple's 21st anniversary, Nikki Toll told the crowd.

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