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A tall white house has stood on Bellmore Road in East Meadow since it was built in 1891. In its basement, logs act as support beams, holding up a rustic wooden ceiling. A door that leads to the …
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By Brian Stieglitz
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8/2/18
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It does matter that on Memorial Day, President Trump tweeted, “Happy Memorial Day! Those who died for our great country would be very happy and proud at how well our country is doing today.” It matters because . . .
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6/8/18
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If the White House calls, just hang up. Put down the phone, run out of the house as if your hair were on fire, change your number and move to a remote town in Saskatchewan . . .
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5/3/18
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Gerard “Jerry” Barbosa, of East Meadow, who survived Japanese warplane attacks while stationed on the USS Raleigh as a gunner’s mate at Pearl Harbor, and the D-Day landings later in …
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By Nadya Nataly and Stephany Reyes
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12/14/17
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Charlie Franza often shot his subjects from afar.
A U.S. Army Air Forces veteran, Franza, who grew up in Philadelphia, enlisted in 1942 and served as a photo lab technician at Mitchel Air Force Base in Hempstead. He guarded highly sensitive information and was sworn to secrecy.
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By Stephany Reyes
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12/6/17
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Carmen Rivera delicately placed her official military photo taken on Nov. 6, 1972 in her palm. This month marks 45 years since Rivera joined the U.S. Army.
“Wasn’t I pretty?” she laughed.
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By Stephany Reyes
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11/15/17
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Eighteen-year-old Alfonso Caggiano watched as another American soldier walked down a road in Velletri, Italy, in May 1944, at the height of the Italian Campaign of World War II. He crouched behind a wall, wishing the soldier would do the same.
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By Stephany Reyes
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11/9/17
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A sold-out, pumped-up crowd celebrated as New York Islanders Captain John Tavares scored an overtime goal on Sunday to give the team a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers in its preseason opener at NYCB Live’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale.
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9/20/17
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Gerard “Jerry” Barbosa, who survived Japanese war planes attacks while stationed on the USS Raleigh as a gunner’s mate at Pearl Harbor, died on Sept. 15, at age 93, of natural causes.
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By Stephany Reyes
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9/20/17
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“She stood me up on our first date,” Alfonso Caggiano, 93, said. “I was furious!”
Caggiano recalled meeting then 17-year-old Phyllis Riccardi in 1951 in Manhattan. After his 1946 discharge from the Army, he became a jewelry designer. Phyllis worked in a clothing factory. After she asked a co-worker about him, Caggiano asked her on a date.
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By Stephany Reyes
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9/14/17
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