"Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy . . ."
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12/8/22
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There are very few people left who can answer the question, “Where were you when Pearl Harbor was bombed?”
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12/1/22
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Three years before enlisting, a then 15-year-old Paul Glasgow remembered listening to the New York Giants football game on the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. A longtime member of the American Legion Lawrence-Cedarhurst Post 339, Glasgow, 90, served in the Army Air Corps. during World War II from 1944 to 1946 in Georgetown, British Guiana.
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By Diana Colapietro
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12/7/16
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There is a difference between knowing the past and feeling it. Every moment, each as real and tangible as any other, has its chance to stand under the spotlight; but then it joins the collection of its predecessors that, together, form the world we know today.
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By Carina Kohn
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4/16/14
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Two weeks ago was the 68th anniversary of the American attack on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
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8/21/13
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For the first time in three years Hewlett and Woodmere held a Memorial Day Parade and Monday’s march up Broadway from the Woodmere firehouse to Hewlett High School was representative of the two Five Towns communities.
The procession was
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By Jeff Bessen
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5/27/13
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A Hewlett man who earned — but never received — seven medals during more than three years of military service in World War II has finally been presented with the honors.
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JEFF BESSEN
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2/8/12
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