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They Fought for “God, Country and Honor and Family”
Posted on Monday, November 11 @ 16:13:17 EST by jfbailey
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WPCNR WHITE PLAINS STARS AND STRIPES. By John F. Bailey. November 11, 2002: An assembly of some 250 persons, dignitaries, veterans, children and parents gathered at the White Plains Rural Cemetary Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Plot this morning to salute and remember their war dead and veterans from America’s conflicts past. Mayor Joseph Delfino, opening the ceremonies noted how ordinary men departed their selfish civilian pursuits to fight for America. The Mayor said they fought for “God, Country and Honor, and I’d like to add to that, Family, because without Family, you have nothing. I also hope and pray that partriotism is not forgotten.”
STRIKING THE COLORS: The Young Marines of White Plains raised the flag to begin Veteran’s Day ceremonies.
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AS THE EASTVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND PLAYED THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER: Laura Mazziotti’s musicians presented a sensitive and evocative arrangement, highlighted by playing the “Rocket’s Red Glare” section of the melody in a lower register, stirring a reflective sense of sacrifice, loss and respect. Appropriately played.
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MAYOR DELFINO PROCLAIMS VETERANS DAY: Mayor Joseph Delfino presents Proclamation of Veteran’s Day to Commander Ashar Katz: The plaque proclaimed of veterans, “With solemn pride and heartfelt gratitude, let us strive each day, that our land remains worthy of the love they’ve shown for it.”
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VETERANS DAY ADDRESS:
Major Willard Lockridge IV, a Vietnam veteran, presently commander of the Marine contingent protecting Indian Point, noted the toll of American war dead since 1776, 1,000,000 men and women. He reminded the audience that at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.., there are 58,229 names, 4,122 of whom were from New York, and 121 persons from foreign countries, and 8 women who gave their lives. Major Lockridge told a moving story of how the memorial bugle call Taps originated that was very moving.
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REMEMBERING THEIR SACRIFICE: Commander Katz and Mayor Delfino Place the Memorial Wreath at the Soldiers and Sailors monument.
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REMEMBERING THE NEWEST HEROES: White Plains Policeman Richard Todaro salutes the Memorial Wreath he has just placed to honor fallen Police and Fireman and service personal in the World Trade Center attack.
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TAPS IS PLAYED, as a light rain gently starts to fall. Rabbi Arnold Turetsky's Benediction expressed the sentiment that though war may come, and is inevitable, given the course of human events, he hoped and prayed that today's peace would linger.
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