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Vol. 34 No. 47
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Honoring our veterans for their service that when you get to a squadron, they’ll be your friends for life,” Rinn said. “They were right. To Greg Rinn, a former Rock- this day we communicate, and ville Centre village trustee, flew we’ll try and get together.” During his five years of to exotic locations around the globe while he was serving as a active duty, he flew the P2V Lockheed Neptune U.S. Navy pilot. to locations around In observance of the globe, including Veterans Day, the Italy, Greece and Village of Rockville Iceland. He also Centre held a cereflew over Guantanamony on Saturday mo Bay during the at Veterans Park, in Cuban missile crifront of the John A. sis. Anderson Recre“We were fortuation Center, to nate, to a certain honor and reccogd e g re e, t h at we nize local veterans, didn’t go to Vietlike Rinn, for their nam,” Rinn said. service. “Although we did Now, nearly 60 practice dropping a years since Rinn completed the nec- FRANCIS X. MuRRAy lot of mines in anticipation of minessary hours of Mayor, ing the harbors of flight time required N o r t h Vi e t n a m . to earn his wings, Rockville Centre Everybody had to he looks back fondly at his time in the Navy and the practice that quite frequently.” After he left the Navy for many lifelong frienships he civilian life, he went to work for made along the way. During his training, he was a telecommunications corporastationed at bases in Pensacola, tion for about 40 years, but Florida; Corpus Christi, Texas; stayed in the reserves at Floyd Orlando and Norfolk, Virginia, Bennett Field in Brooklyn, until where he was assigned to a it closed in 1970. “We were at risk at times squadron for three years. “Someone told me years ago Continued on page 11
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Photos courtesy RVC school district
Riverside students thank former soldiers Riverside Elementary School students presented 120 thank you cards to American Legion Post 303 Commander Frank Colón Jr., on Thursday morning to thank local veterans for their service. Students helped adorn the lawn of the school with flags in recognition of Veterans Day.
e stand in the midst of patriots, and the families and friends of those who have nobly served.