The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa., set off a cascade of worldwide catastrophes over the subsequent two decades . . .
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9/9/21
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After a harrowing 18 days in Afghanistan last month, a woman from Westchester County, traveling with two of her three children, returned safely to the U.S., after an experience that could have been a plotline for a Hollywood movie.
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By Jeff Bessen
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9/1/21
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When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, millions of Americans who doubted his integrity wondered how they could ever trust his decisions in moments of crisis. Now such a moment is here.
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5/23/19
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In the run-up to Christmas last year, I covered an annual event at Dees’ Nursery in Oceanside. Trees for Troops, it was called, and for the past 14 years . . .
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6/29/17
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For anyone who has not served in combat, it’s impossible to understand the horrors of war. We can try to imagine them, however. We can imagine . . .
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11/10/16
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Many Long Islanders identify terrorism as their No. 1 concern, and rightfully so. Our nation’s response to the perpetual threat from violent Islamist supremacists . . .
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10/13/16
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Rambam Mesivta students and faculty honored military service people during the Lawrence-based school’s annual Veterans Day assembly that had Avrohom Horovitz, a chaplain and paratrooper of the 82nd Airborne from Atlanta, Ga. as their keynote speaker on Nov. 11.
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By Vanessa Parker
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11/11/15
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We all know that wars and battlefield conflicts are dangerous experiences. There are at least 30,000 young men and women who were wounded in battle in Iraq or Afghanistan . . .
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2/12/15
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The Hewlett-Woodmere Board of Education was expected to vote this week on whether to approve a veterans’ alternative tax exemption — allowing veterans to pay less in school property taxes — after more than 50 military veterans attended the board’s Sept. 10 meeting and pushed for a decision on the issue.
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By Vanessa Parker
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9/17/14
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The number of foreign correspondents has plummeted in the past 10 years, and most overseas news bureaus have either shrunk or shuttered their offices.
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9/11/14
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