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Lynbrook Elks Club hosts disabled veterans
The Elks Club in Lynbrook hosted its annual dinner and show for disabled veterans from the area. The members served a delicious roast beef dinner, and entertained the crowd with a musical tribute to Billy Joel more
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VFW Post 3350 Commander Joe McCarthy
Politicians, lend us your ears!
The Robert F. Garrison Post 3350, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in East Rockaway has issued an open invitation to area political figures to attend its monthly meetings, which are held at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month — except in July and August. more
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DeCaprio inside one of the turrets of a convoy vehicle, where she would stand when leading security patrols.
Oceanside vets 'adopt' East Meadow marine
Sergeant Chrissy DeCaprio is less than a quarter of the age of most of the members of the Jewish War Veterans Chwatsky-Farber Post 717 in Oceanside. But at just 24, she's already served two tours of … more
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Collected words of wisdom for the New Year
As we batted around ideas for this week’s editorial, we agreed that a new take on an old idea — New Year’s resolutions — was in order. Rather than offer our own ideas, we decided, we’d ask the experts. more
Bill Green, front, shares a drink with friends Joe Clarino, left, Carl Spoelting and Jay Alexander after marching in the Irish Day parade in Long Beach.
‘He never stopped trying to help the vets’
It was a minor change among the many William Green brought to the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Long Beach. As its commander from 2000 to 2004, Green began displaying on the walls two framed … more
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The Joint Veterans organization, local veterans, religious leaders, residents and City Manager Charles Theofan joined together in remembering when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. Following the commemoration, held on Monday at Veterans Park at Magnolia Boulevard on the bay, newly engraved bricks honoring local veterans were placed in the Veterans Walk of Honor. In remembrance of the American servicemen killed that day, Omar Karom, Cmdr. AMVETS, left, and John Zimmerman, VFW and JVO commander, prepare to place wreath in Reynolds Channel.
Remembering a day that lives in infamy
Residents may never again see the inflated turkey in a wagon dragged by a tractor, a highlight of past North Bellmore Ragamuffin parades, as was the case last year as shown here.
60+-year neighborhood tradition over?
North Bellmore’s Ragamuffin Parade was cancelled this year. The annual tradition, which has taken place on Thanksgiving morning since 1947, was called off due to "lack of interest," according to North Bellmore American Legion Post commander Frank Colon Jr. more
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Students at Lincoln Orens Middle School also created ten collages, each spelling out the words to one amendment of the Bill of Rights, as part of an art project. Their work now hangs in the school's library.
Students honor local veterans
Students and faculty at Lincoln Orens Middle School in Island Park honored local veterans with a special ceremony last Monday. The event featured student presentations and personal dedications to … more
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Village Fire and Police Department color guards, in full dress, led off the ceremony.
Forever in their debt
On the 90th anniversary of what was once known as Armistice Day, members of the Rockville Centre community paused to give thanks and honor the courage and sacrifice of the men and women in the country's armed services. more
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Veterans from six wars and students paraded through a hallway at Long Beach Middle School during a Veterans Day ceremony last Friday.
Long Beach Middle School honors vets from six wars
American flags lined the driveway leading to the Long Beach Middle School to greet more than 30 veterans from six wars in honor of Veterans Day last Friday. The veterans arrived to speak to the … more
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