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Remembering the 9/11 lost converted a truck into a sound studio, using it to record his own band’s music as well as others. Michele Puckett-For molo “We would call him Macremembers her father as a man Gyver,” she joked, “because you who could light up a room. That could give him two paper clips quality is one of the things she and a toothpick and he’d build misses most about him, 20 years you a raft.” later, since the light Puckett-Formolo went out on John F. remembers her Puckett, of Glen f ather as a fun, Cove, on Sept. 11, happy person who 2001. always had a smile “He always made on his face. He was sure everyone also an active musiaround him was cian, she said, and having fun,” Puckplayed bass in his ett-Formolo, of Sea band, 100 Percent Cliff, said. “He just Pure, which often had that ability to be played around Long the light in a room.” Island. Puckett, 47, was She was 16 when an audio engineer her father died, and who worked with a when she heard the number of high-pronews, she said, she file artists, recordwas in denial. “He ing albums for musiwas one of the first cians like Frank MICHELE people to be found,” Sinatra, B.B. King, PUCKETTshe recalled, “and I Johnny Mathis and figured it wasn’t him FORMOLO Paul Anka. Accordand he was still ing to his obituary, Sea Cliff missing.” several of those She said it took recordings went gold. He often three months for her to believe set up the sound system for con- that he had died. ferences at Windows on the Puckett was born in Chicago, World, on the top floor of the but grew up in Las Vegas, his North Tower, which is where he daughter said. Living in Las was when the hijacked planes hit Vegas introduced him to show the tower. business — and some of the big According to his daughter, he players — enabling him to find had an engineer’s mind, and was his calling. He moved to Glen good with wires and gadgets. He CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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Heading back to school Students in the North Shore School District returned to classes on Sept. 1, and Principal Dr. Peter Rufa, of Glen Head School, greeted some of them. More photos, Page 3.
As Afghan War comes to end, local vets feel betrayal, anger BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
Many of the more than 4 million American armed forces veterans or active-duty personnel who have served in the 20 years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 are battling a sense of heartbreak, frustration and confusion after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Tal-
iban takeover of the country — the same Taliban that harbored Al Qaeda terrorists who planned the attacks. “The troop pullout is a real tragedy — we never should have left,” Robert Bazan, a former commander of Glenwood Landing American Legion Post 336, said. “Pulling out created a vacuum in the country that allowed the Taliban back into power.”
Bazan, a retired Navy captain from Glenwood Landing, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 and served there for about a year. President Biden followed through on his promise to remove American troops from Afghanistan once and for all, after noting that Al Qaeda’s founder, Osama bin Laden, was killed over a decade ago. After CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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