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De Blasio, at Memorial Day Events, Pays Tribute to Veterans
In a day of honoring the fallen, Mayor Bill de Blasio focused on veterans, noting in two emotional speeches that through their stories and tributes they kept alive the memories of those who died at war.
At different Memorial Day events, first at a monument on the Upper West Side and later by an aircraft carrier moored on the Hudson, he drew on memories of his own father, a World War II veteran who lost part of his leg in combat.
“Every time I heard a story of someone who didn’t come back it was obviously an act of keeping that person’s memory alive, of respecting all they had done for their country,” Mr. de Blasio said Monday, standing on a pier alongside the U.S.S. Intrepid.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/nyregion/de-blasio-at-memorial-day-events-pays-tribute-to-veterans.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140526&nlid=63085245&tntemail0=y&_r=0
At different Memorial Day events, first at a monument on the Upper West Side and later by an aircraft carrier moored on the Hudson, he drew on memories of his own father, a World War II veteran who lost part of his leg in combat.
“Every time I heard a story of someone who didn’t come back it was obviously an act of keeping that person’s memory alive, of respecting all they had done for their country,” Mr. de Blasio said Monday, standing on a pier alongside the U.S.S. Intrepid.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/nyregion/de-blasio-at-memorial-day-events-pays-tribute-to-veterans.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140526&nlid=63085245&tntemail0=y&_r=0