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The glow of candles illuminated the faces—many filled with sorrow—of community members and local leaders who gathered on Monday at sunset to commemorate East Meadow and Salisbury residents who died during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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By Stephany Reyes
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9/14/17
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“We used to have over 300 members at one point,” said Frank Salamino, a member of East Meadow’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2736. “Now we have 25 members in total. Our post is dying.”
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By Stephany Reyes
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8/18/17
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Second in a two-part series about East Meadow’s women veterans.
When Stephanie Rossetti was stationed at Command Post Tango, a U.S. military base in South Korea, in August 1976, a somber feeling lingered throughout the base after news spread two U.S. soldiers had been murdered by North Korean soldiers.
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/13/17
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First in a two-part series about East Meadow’s women veterans.
Whenever Brandi Jefferson-Motley watched the morning national news in her Maryland home in 2013, a sense of dread and sorrow hung over her for the rest of the day.
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By Stephany Reyes
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7/13/17
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The popular band honors the Eagles'legacy.
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7/6/17
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Veterans from across East Meadow raised their right hands to their temples to salute and commemorate fallen comrades at the Veterans Memorial Park in East Meadow on Monday.
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By Stephany Reyes
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6/7/17
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Outside, it may have been drizzly and cold, but inside, spirits were high on March 31, as politicians and business executives cut the ribbon on the new NYCB Live Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale. Billy Joel was set to officially open the arena — which underwent a 16-month-long, $165 million remodeling funded by Forest City Ratner Companies — on Wednesday, after press time.
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By Stephany Reyes and Scott Brinton
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4/10/17
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Outside, it might have been drizzly and cold, but inside spirits were running high among officials on Friday as they cut the ribbon on the new NYCB Live Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, revamped at a cost of $165 million in private funding by Forest City Ratner Companies. Billy Joel will open the remodeled Coliseum on April 5.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/31/17
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In August 2015, Matthew Goodison-Orr, a third-year Hofstra University law student, began working with Gary Port, a West Hempstead resident, attorney and U.S. Army veteran, on a pro bono legal case: A marine had suffered a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder while on duty in Iraq, and never received treatment from the military after he requested it. He began to self-medicate with marijuana, and was kicked out of the Marine Corps after a urine test.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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12/13/16
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When 22-year-old Joe Macchio lay on a beach in Oro Bay, New Guinea, with fellow Army Air Corps. comrades in late 1944, he heard a sound emerging from the deep jungle behind the makeshift tent he called home.
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By Stephany Reyes
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11/11/16
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