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Down the stairs and around a corner in Rockville Centre resident Neil Leinwohl’s basement, a 4-by-6-foot painting hangs prominently on the left-side wall.
“That’s called Last Laughs,” he said, eyeing the piece, which depicts oddly shaped creatures — weapons in hand — ready to fight. “It’s basically about the world today,” Leinwohl, 71, added softly. “People facing off against each other.”
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By Ben Strack
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9/7/17
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Commander Frank Paz, a Vietnam War veteran, was presented with the Nassau County Distinguished Service for Veterans award on Aug. 12.
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By Melissa Koenig
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8/23/17
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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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Marine veteran James Brooks, 58, was one of eight men who had settled in what was supposed to be a temporary home for veterans on Woodfield Road in West Hempstead when he and his housemates received notice last year that they needed to vacate. “They want everybody to move out,” Brooks said. “So everyone began scrambling, trying to find a place to live.”
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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8/9/17
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About 60 service members and their families visited Long Beach this week with their families, as hundreds of residents flocked to the boardwalk for a Sunday morning race and later to West Beech …
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7/28/17
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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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Lynbrook held its annual Patriots Day event Sunday in Greis Park.
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6/1/17
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