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West Hempstead Memorial Day Ceremony
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West Hempstead 2014 Memorial Day ceremony at Echo Park
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Photos by Christina Daly
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5/28/14
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Who wouldn’t be excited about the three-day weekend coming up — it’s the unofficial start of summer, right? Barbecues abound, public beaches are opening, and we all have an extra day to relax.
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5/22/14
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I plugged a simple search term into Google last week: “Were Afghanistan and Iraq worth it?” Tens of thousands of entries popped up.
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5/31/13
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“The Yellow Birds,” by Kevin Powers, should be required reading. The debut novel tells the story of two young American soldiers fighting their way through Al Tafar province in Iraq in 2004.
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5/23/13
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We have had crueler months than April 2013, but this one singed the soul.
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5/2/13
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John Francis Terrasi, a longtime West Hempstead resident and a veteran of World War II, died on May 30 after suffering a stroke. He was 87. Terrasi died just two days after serving as one of the …
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Chris Engelhardt
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6/5/12
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On May 28, West Hempstead held its annual Memorial Day Parade to honor the community’s veterans and service men and women. The event, organized by West Hempstead’s American Legion Cathedral Post …
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By Rosalie Norton
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6/5/12
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In past years, when I travelled to our nation's capital, I tried to visit the Vietnam Memorial. It was always an emotional experience. The "wall," as the memorial is informally known, is a v-shaped …
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By George Rand
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5/25/12
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According to The Associated Press, some 1,843 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001.
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5/24/12
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Hundreds of West Hempstead residents took the streets Monday, May 30, to march in the hamlet's annual Memorial Day Parade, which was sponsored by the American Legion Cathedral Post 1087 and the West …
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6/1/11
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