Freeport remembers America's Fallen

Despite the rainy weather and cancellation of the Freeport Memorial Day parade, the community insisted on honoring America’s fallen on Monday.

At Freeport High School, on South Brookside Avenue, dozens of first-responders assembled, along with members of the Freeport High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps, families, widows, veterans and community representatives.

This year’s parade grand marshal was Lt. Col. Sandy Krigel, of the U.S. Air Force, who shared his personal remarks as a veteran and Freeport native.

After a prayer, the Freeport High School band played taps. Then members of the Nassau County Sherriff’s Office held a flag-folding ceremony, after which Coy Richardsen, commander of American Legion Post 342, and past commander Richard Cromwell presented a new flag.