A small group of military servicemen and women attended an information session at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, July 26 to gather intel on how to begin a new journey of sorts: serving their communities in the classroom through a national program called Troops to Teachers.
On the Sunday leading up to Veteran’s Day, the marching band from Christ the King H.S., Middle Village, walked in the Veteran’s Day Parade down Metropolitan Avenue.
About 1,000 people were in Merrick, L.I., to celebrate with Marine Corporal Kevin Vaughan, the recipient of a mortgage-free house as his new home.
Dear Editor: To Frederick R. Bedell Jr. (Readers’ Forum, “Homelessness,” Sept. 9), I want to offer my apologies to you for your experience as a veteran being homeless after being released from the U.S. Navy and having served during the Vietnam era. There is something seriously wrong with us as a country when men come […]
Whenever I’m in St. John’s Cemetery in Middle Village, I make it a point to drive over to the Priests’ Circle to pay respects to the diocesan clergy who are interred there. So it was not unusual to do so when I was there to cover the Memorial Day Field Mass. I was drawn to […]
