NHP honors local vets during Memorial Day

BY CAMERYN OAKES

New Hyde Park Mayor Christopher Devane shared the story of a lieutenant in the Air Force during World War II, the son of Irish immigrants who made the ultimate sacrifice, at New Hyde

Park’s Memorial Day celebration Saturday morning.

This lieutenant was just 24 years old when he signed up to go fight for his country in the wake of the attack upon Pearl Harbor.

In 1943, he was training to go to war in Europe and during a training exercise his plane went down. Devan said he was killed instantly and his family was devastated, including his two other brothers who were also in the war and never had the chance to say goodbye.

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