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If you thanked 96-year-old World War II veteran Arthur Bonne for his service, he would say, “Don’t thank me, thank the guys who never got to come home.” Nevertheless, residents celebrated Bonne …
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By Nakeem Grant
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11/16/17
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Marine veteran James Brooks, 58, was one of eight men who had settled in what was supposed to be a temporary home for veterans on Woodfield Road in West Hempstead when he and his housemates received notice last year that they needed to vacate. “They want everybody to move out,” Brooks said. “So everyone began scrambling, trying to find a place to live.”
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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8/9/17
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The popular band honors the Eagles'legacy.
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7/6/17
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Outside, it might have been drizzly and cold, but inside spirits were running high among officials on Friday as they cut the ribbon on the new NYCB Live Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, revamped at a cost of $165 million in private funding by Forest City Ratner Companies. Billy Joel will open the remodeled Coliseum on April 5.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/31/17
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In August 2015, Matthew Goodison-Orr, a third-year Hofstra University law student, began working with Gary Port, a West Hempstead resident, attorney and U.S. Army veteran, on a pro bono legal case: A marine had suffered a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder while on duty in Iraq, and never received treatment from the military after he requested it. He began to self-medicate with marijuana, and was kicked out of the Marine Corps after a urine test.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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12/13/16
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Re-adjusting to civilian life can pose a big challenge for veterans, including the 2.6 million servicemen and women who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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11/11/16
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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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West Hempstead resident Alfred Magliano, 90, was a sergeant in the U.S. Army, only 18 years old and stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, when a Japanese submarine torpedoed his ship on Feb. 11, 1945.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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9/27/16
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East Meadowites driving along Hempstead Turnpike or Charles Lindbergh Boulevard recently may have noticed fresh black paint coating the sides of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Earlier this month, …
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By Julie Mansmann
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7/14/16
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Old Westbury Gardens transforms itself for a festive "Midsummer Night."
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6/22/16
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