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Last Saturday, religious leaders, a school superintendent, public officials and village residents gathered at the 9/11 memorial in Arthur J. Hendrickson Park to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Dozens stood solemnly under a brilliant blue sky, much like the one on that morning in Lower Manhattan when the twin
towers were struck by two hijacked jets, and ultimately reduced to rubble. The ceremony began with the presentation of colors by members of American Legion Post 854, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1790 and the Valley Stream Boy and Girl Scouts. Nassau County Court Judge Robert G. Bogle, the master of ceremonies, offered welcoming remarks, and Samantha Wright sang the national anthem. The Rev. Steven Milazzo, of Bethlehem
Assembly of God, delivered the invocation. “We have heard that true courage is like a kite, and a strong wind will always raise it higher,” Bogle said. “President George Washington once said that courage is the price for which life exacts freedom, and freedom is a blessing upon which all the good and evil in life depends. And the cause of that freedom will always be eternal vigilance. Today we honor those individCONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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VALLEY STREAM FIREFIGHTER Matthew Roth helped his daughter Janah, 6, place a carnation on the village’s Sept. 11 memorial on Saturday.
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The coronavirus pandemic sw e p t a c r o s s t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s , i n c l u d i n g Va l l e y Stream, like a wildfire over the past 18 months, killing more than 600,000 of our fellow Americans. We mour n each and every one of these precious lives taken too soon. In recent months, however, we have begun to emerge from this nationwide catastrophe, and because of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, we are seeing a glimmer of hope. Though the Covid-19 infection and death rates h ave t i c ke d u p recently, we are far better off than we were one year ago. We also learned an important lesson during this crisis: We are stronger together. Throughout the pandemic, all of us at the Herald have strived to report the news of the day swiftly and accurately. Suddenly last spring, we were no longer a weekly newspaper. We were a daily, publishing the news online at liherald. com and in our newsletter. Hundreds of thousands of people a month came to our website for the latest news.
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