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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Come out on Monday, May 28, to honor all veterans and service men and women, and to view Baldwin’s Memorial Day parade. The parade, presented by the American Legion Baldwin Post #246, will step off at 9:30 a.m. from the Pathmark parking lot and will proceed south on Grand Avenue, concluding with a Memorial Day Ceremony at Silver Lake Park.
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By Chris Connolly
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5/23/12
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With the sun beaming down and not a cloud in sight, Baldwin American Legion Post 246 held its annual Memorial Day Parade.
Residents lined Grand Avenue for the parade, which included …
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6/1/10
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When a sergeant in the First Infantry Division told Joseph Argenzio, Jr. that he was going to the “big show,” the then 17-year-old thought he would be seeing a Hollywood show. “Not …
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Mike Russo
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5/30/10
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We all think it: Memorial Day symbolizes the start of summer. For many Americans it means dusting off the grill and making the pool water sparkle. It means big sales at the stores. It means hot dogs, baseball and a three-day weekend. It means that spring is on its way out and the hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer are on the way in.
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5/28/10
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In 1915, in response to John McCrae’s battlefront-theme poem In Flanders Fields, Moina Micheal, a professor at the University of Georgia, published a poem in response called “We Shall Keep the …
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Mary Malloy
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5/27/10
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According to official reports, six American soldiers were killed during the first two weeks of this month in Afghanistan, casualties of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/20/10
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