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Meyer Rothstein, who served on Okinawa Island during World War II, is turning 100 years old. He was joined by his wife of seven decades, Dorothy.

In the trying days after American Army and Marine forces stormed Okinawa Island on April 1, 1945, food was scarce. Merokean Meyer Rothstein, who fought with the Army at Okinawa and who turns 100 this month, foraged for wild garlic, whose shoots form tiny purple flowers that resemble sunbursts. more

By Scott Brinton | 8/5/15

Roseanne Cash and her band visit Adelphi University's Performing Arts Center on Friday, performing songs from her latest album "The River and the Thread."

What's happening on Long Island this weekend

Exhibits and more... Enduring ImagesAn exhibition, drawn from Hofstra University Museum’s permanent collections, that focuses on the lasting record created by an artist’s visual … more

5/14/15

In the summer of 2013, Bob Wieboldt took an Honor Flight to visit the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., with his son Eric. He was nominated for the honor because of his service in World War II and his commitment to helping veterans injured during war.

At 95, World War II vet still aiding L.I.’s wounded warriors

In the late 1940s and early ’50s, veterans returning from World War II scattered across Long Island, seeking quiet communities to call home. Many were tired, forlorn, shell-shocked. They founded local posts of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars to find companionship with the men ... more

By Scott Brinton | 2/12/15

Holocaust survivor Evelyn Pike Rubin, of Jericho, came to Calhoun High School recently to speak with students about her wartime experiences. Her family hid out in Shanghai to escape the Nazi Gestapo.

From 'Ghetto Shanghai' to L.I.

The train trip still haunts Evelyn Pike Rubin more than 75 years later. It was the winter of 1939. Pike Rubin, an only child who was 8½ at the time, was steaming from Breslau, in Nazi Germany, to Naples, Italy, where she was to board a cruise ship, the Hakusaki Maru, bound for Japanese-occupied Shanghai. more

By Scott Brinton | 11/26/14

Louis Camilleri, 90, served as a gunnery officer in one of World War II’s most historic battles, on Iwo Jima, or Sulfur Island. He became a chemist when he returned from the war. In 1987, he and his wife, Dorothy, opened Dear Little Dollies in Bellmore. Dorothy died in 2013.

The long, hard fight for Iwo Jima

Navy Lt. Louis Camilleri signaled to his navigator to abort the landing. Camilleri had spotted a beach officer ahead. He was waving off Camilleri’s 36-foot landing craft, called a Higgins boat. Japanese bullets and mortars rained down on the beach. It was too “hot” to land. more

By Scott Brinton | 11/11/14

Veterans who are members of the Jewel Quinn Senior Center spoke about their experiences during World War II and the Korean War to Bellmore and Merrick students on June 6, the 70th anniversary of D-Day, at North Merrick’s Brookside School.

D-Day vets chat with Central students

Exactly 70 years after D-Day, students in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s Meadowbrook Alternative Program and veterans who are members of the Jewel Quinn Senior Center … more

6/19/14

Newbridge Road Elementary School recently turned 90 years old, and the community came together for a birthday celebration to remember the past.

Remembering North Bellmore’s oldest school

Although they attended the school decades apart from one another, students and alumni of Newbridge Road Elementary School were having similar discussions in both the auditorium and faculty room at a … more

By Julie Mansmann | 6/4/14

Onlookers in Washington, D.C., rushed to greet and photograph the veterans at the Washington Monument during an Honor Flight trip in June 2012.

Giving WWII vets a ‘final mission’

Jeffrey Rosenking never leaves home without a brochure. Wherever he is, if he spots an elderly man or woman in military garb, Rosenking will introduce himself and hand them a pamphlet for Honor Flight Long Island, an organization for which he has volunteered since 2010, which sends World War II veterans to the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., free of charge. more

By David Weingrad | 11/13/13

World War II veteran and POW Bernie Rader, and his wife, June, spoke with students in the Advanced Placement American history and Gilder Lehrman Foreign Policy classes at John F. Kennedy High School on Oct. 30 about his experiences during the war.

Kennedy students relive history with a hero

For the fourth straight year, students at John F. Kennedy High School were exposed to living history. more

By Julie Mansmann | 11/7/13

Trying to put nuclear genie back in the bottle

Two weeks ago was the 68th anniversary of the American attack on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. more

8/21/13

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