Sometime in the 1980s, the Rev. Jim Lefebvre, the Albany police chaplain, got a call of a bad daytime accident on Interstate 787. A truck had plowed into the back of a car. In the front seat were a grandfather and grandmother. In the back, two babies "were wiped out."
An officer was taking notes and photographing the scene. "He was very professional, he was measuring," the 75-year-old priest recalled this week, "and then he had to take a picture of the back seat of the car, and on the floor were two little baby booties. And the tears started to come."
The cop "was embarrassed," Lefebvre said, so he took him aside. He said he had two kids at home exactly the same age as the victims.
"Are you all right?" Lefebvre …
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