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Wallkill Valley Times, Wednesday, December 13, 2017
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Crossword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Dining Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Letters to the Editor. . . . . . . . . . 8
Maybrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pine Bush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Police Blotter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
School News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Service Directory. . . . . . . . . . . 31
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Walden.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Wallkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Walker Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
PUBLIC AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13
Town of Crawford Planning Board, 7
p.m. Town Hall, 121 Route 302, Pine Bush.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14
Montgomery Town Board Audit/
Work Session, 7 p.m. Town Government
Center, 110 Bracken Road, Montgomery.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18
Town of Montgomery ZBA, 7 p.m. Town
Government Center, 110 Bracken Road,
Montgomery.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19
Walden Village Board of Trustees,
6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 1 Municipal Square.
Montgomery Village Board, 7:30 p.m.
Village Hall, 133 Clinton St.
Never forget!
Montgomery hosts Pearl Harbor remembrance
By JASPREET GILL
[email protected]
“The biggest casualty is to be
forgotten” said Montgomery Pearl Harbor
Remembrance Committee Chairman
Timothy Dempsey. “By being here today
we are honoring those who served and
who perished. That to me is really what
counts.”
Montgomery’s American Legion Post
521 and Maybrook’s VFW Post 2064 held
their annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance
Day ceremony at Powell’s Landing on
the shore of the Wallkill River this past
Thursday.
“This is a day where tears flow very
freely,” said Walter Schneider of Post 521.
The event began with an opening
prayer followed by the Pledge of
Allegiance, people sharing their
memories of the Pearl Harbor bombing,
a moment of silence for lives lost at Pearl
Harbor and in World War 2, Taps, a 21-gun
salute and a symbolic toss of the flowered
wreath into the Wallkill River.
On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval
base at Pearl Harbor was bombed by 360
Japanese warplanes. This incident led to
the U.S. entry into World War II.
Members of the Montgomery’s American Legion Post 521 and Maybrook’s VFW Post 2064
march down Powell’s Landing on the shore of the Wallkill River this past Thursday for their
annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony.
“Over 16 ships of the U.S. Navy were
damaged or destroyed, over 2,000 seamen
perished and a couple thousand were
wounded,” said Dempsey. “The U.S. came
back to devastate Japan and ultimately
prevailed in World War II.”
The ceremony ended with the National
Anthem and coffee and cookies were
served in the Village of Montgomery Teen
Ce