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East Rockaway 8 a.m. – Interfaith service at St.Raymond’s Church, Atlantic Ave.., East Rockaway 10 a.m. – parade will start at VFW Post on Main Street; ceremony at … more

Mary Malloy | 5/27/10

Nassau County VFW Commander Pete Vitulli, left, and Past Commander Pat Iuliucci sold red poppies the week before Memorial Day. Both are member of VFW Post 3350 in East Rockaway.

Why red poppies for Memorial Day?

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 … more

Mary Malloy | 5/27/10

Honoring the fallen, here and over there

According to official reports, six American soldiers were killed during the first two weeks of this month in Afghanistan, casualties of Operation Enduring Freedom. more

Randi Kreiss | 5/20/10

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