{"id":2546,"date":"2024-11-12T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2024-11-12T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:17:44","slug":"brooklynites-say-thank-you-to-veterans-on-appreciation-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/brooklynites-say-thank-you-to-veterans-on-appreciation-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklynites Say ‘Thank You’ to Veterans on Appreciation Day Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By: Megan McGibney<\/a><\/p>\n

The 4th Annual Veterans Appreciation Day Celebration was held on Sunday at Marine Park\u2019s Carmine Carro Community Center.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dozens of veterans, community leaders, and locals\u00a0honored the veterans from within the boundaries of New York State\u2019s Assembly District 59, a district that includes Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Canarsie, Georgetown, Mill Basin, and other locations.<\/p>\n

Since 2020, the district, led by Assemblywoman Jaime R. Williams, has honored its war and military veterans with an exhibition and banners depicting each veteran dotting the streets from Canarsie to Gerritsen Beach.<\/p>\n

According to the Assemblywoman\u2019s office, 132 local veterans, living\u00a0and deceased, have been honored.\u00a0Each year sees new veterans with this year adding\u00a0five more.<\/p>\n

Those five were George R. Broadhead, who served with\u00a0the United States Marine Corps in the Korean War; Edward Delaney who served in the Army with distinction from 1958 to 1960; Andrea Hodge, an original member of the Women\u2019s Army Corps who also achieved the rank of Platoon Sergeant; Lenox R. Hutson who was\u00a0in the Army from 1972 to 1974, and again in the Reserves from 1981 until 1984; and Noelle Penatello who served in the Navy aboard the USS Holland AS-32 for three years.<\/p>\n

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Assemblywoman Jaime R. Williams (AD-59) speaks at the 4th Annual Veterans Appreciation Day Celebration. Megan McGibney <\/p>\n

The ceremony was held behind the Community Center. The portraits of all 132 veterans were pinned behind the stage, where the speakers spoke to an audience of just under 150 people.<\/p>\n

The Star-Spangled Banner, \u201cAmerica the Beautiful,\u201d and Ave Maria were sung, and a priest and a rabbi gave convocations. The tone from Assemblywoman Williams and other speakers focused on the importance of honoring and thanking veterans while noting the difficulty of fighting in a war.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t let the rhetoric fool you,\u201d said the Assemblywoman. \u201cEvery day\u00a0you see a veteran, thank a veteran. Everybody wants to be an American but not everyone wants to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another member of the New York State Assembly, Lester Chang of AD-49, <\/a>who served in the Navy, said veterans are a small yet important part of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome march off to war, but most didn\u2019t,\u201d he said, referring to the training process.\u00a0\u201cBut we will protect the constitution with our lives if we have to. There are less than two million service members.<\/a> There are more farmers than those in the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another elected official who also served in the military, Steve Chan, the newly elected State Senator for SD-17,\u00a0<\/a>was a Corporal in the Marines. He shared his time serving in Iraq while also warning the attendants about more conflicts.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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