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| Buffalo Bob Casale '61 | Linda (Piccerelli) Hayden '60 |
| Pat (Koziuk) Driscoll '56 | Bob (Gleason) Wesley '61 |
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People Looking for People
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HICKSVILLE VIETNAM WAR ERA MEMORIAL - PROJECT UPDATE
Please visit the Honoring Our Veterans tab of this issue to find the current full report on Project activities, to include construction status, donations and our normal reporting format which includes the full list of donors to date.
As mentioned the past two months, should any of our local Long Island readers wish to join the Project Team to help complete Memorial construction, please drop me an email, along with the best phone number to reach you, at the address noted below.
Missing information continues to be a real need for the Confirmed List of Names and we still to need reader help in filling in a lot of this information by sending me an email with any data you are aware of.
As always, should you have any new, or missing, information to report for either List, or, should you wish to comment on the Project's status, please email me at
On behalf of the Project Team,
Joe Carfora, HHS 1962
First Official Rock Group In the Army & at West Point
The Brooklyn BridgeHorn Section
Gold is cool and this wasa great song!!!
2006 Tommy Sullivan & Billy JoelInduction into L.I. Music Hall of Fame
Tommy & his charming wife,Sue
The Newsletter
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Strange Facts about the U.S.
More people live in New York City than in 40 of the 50 states.
There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid
There's a town in Washington with treetop bridges made specifically to help squirrels cross the street 
In 1872, Russia sold Alaska to the Unites States for about 2 cents per acre.
It would take you more than 400 years to spend a night in all of Las Vegas 's hotel rooms.
Western Michigan is home to a giant lavender labyrinth so big you can see it on Google Earth.
There's an island full of wild monkeys off the coast of South Carolina called Morgan Island , and it's not open to humans. 
There's enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York City. 
Arizona and Hawaii are now the only states that don't observe daylight savings time. 
Boston has the worst drivers out of the nation's 200 largest cities. Kansas City has the best drivers.
Kansas produces enough wheat each year to feed everyone in the world for about two weeks. 
Oregon's Crater Lake is deep enough to cover six Statues of Liberty stacked on top of each other.
The Empire State building has its own zip code.
The Los Angeles Coroner's Office has its own quirky gift shop called Skeletons in the Closet. 
The Library of Congress contains approximately 838 miles of bookshelves long enough to stretch from Houston to Chicago.
At 46 letters, Massachusetts's Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg has the longest place name in the U.S. (even though it's based on a joke). 
The entire Denver International Airport is twice the size of Manhattan. 
In 1893, an amendment was proposed to rename the country to the "United States of Earth."
A highway in Lancaster, California plays the 'William Tell Overture' as you drive over it, thanks to some well-placed grooves in the road. 
The total length of Idaho 's rivers could stretch across the United States about 40 times. 
The town of Centralia , Pennsylvania has been on fire for 55 years.
The one-woman town of Monowi, Nebraska is the only officially incorporated municipality with a population of 1. The sole, 83-year-old resident is the city's mayor, librarian, and bartender. 
The entire town of Whittier, Alaksa lives under one roof. 
The number of bourbon barrels in Kentucky outnumbers the state's population by more than two million. 
Montana's Glacier National Park has a canine "bark ranger" that helps herd wildlife away from high-traffic areas. 
You can watch more than 100 ponies swim to Chincoteague Island every year in Virginia. 
In 1943, the temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota jumped 49 degrees in two minutes (-4'F to 45'F), one of the most drastic changes on record. 
The world's tiniest park is in Portland, measuring a mere two feet wide.
The inventor of the Ouija board lived and died in Baltimore; his tombstone stands as a reflection of his achievement. 
The biggest signature in human history belongs to Texas farmer Jimmie Luecke. The two-mile landmark can be seen from space. 
Only one-third of all $100 bills are actually inside the United States.
In Colma, California the dead outnumber the living by nearly 1,000 to 1. 
The smallest county in the U.S., Kalawao County on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i is also a leprosy colony where a few former patients still live. 
South Florida is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist in the wild.
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Birthdays & Anniversaries
Birthdays
- 1: Pat (Thompson) Dumas (PA); Emmett Goodman (FL)
2: Jackie (Elwood) DiLorenzo (NY); Alan Buckholz (AZ); Jaysen S. Silverman (NC) - 3: Jean (Siegl) Holloway (FL)
- 4: Bob Goldmacher (FL)
- 5: Suzon (Cohen) Fisher (NC)
- 6: Mary Ann (Malerba) Hartman (FL); Michele (D”orazio) Vigliano (NY); Joanne (Tracy) Arnold (NY); Judy (Tremel) Wyatt (FL)
- 7: Pat (Lenzner) Caruso
- 8: Diane (Burke) McGinn (AZ); Fuchs Bill (L.I.); Bob Gillette (SC)
- 9: Michael Perduto; Steve Riscica; Ronnie (McCarthy) Quigley
- 10: Dick Henningsen (NY); Larry Dagna (PA)
- 11: Martha (Gross) Parent (DE); Mike Soblick
- 12: Terry (Tisdell) Moehringer (HX); Susan (Ambrico) Smith (CA); Ronnie (Wells) Brigandi
- 13: Mary (Haas) Penn; Tony Bellacera (CA)
- 14: Tom Manaskie (HX); Armand Sepanski (AZ)
- 16: Denis Rossi (NJ); Robert Bialick (L.I.); Alison (Swanton) Mason (ME)
- 17: Josephine (Cipullo) Walston (HX)
- 18: Sandy (Sandler) Wolfe (FL)
- 19: Larry Baroletti (L.I.); Sandi (Notov) Katz (CO)
- 20: Bruce Goldmacher (FL)
- 21: Dee (Green) Kenny (HX)
- 22: George Lien (L.I.)
- 23: Kathy (McManus) Bock (NC)
- 24: Suzanne (Garrett) Cullen (L.I.)
- 25: Richard Swain 1951 (NY); Henry Lichtenstein (NC)
- 26: Judy (Marcus) Shivers; Carol (Fred) Sliwkoski (L.I.)
- 27: Joe Bausk; Elliot Gorlin (NV)
- 28: Ed Osborne (CO)
- 29: Barbara (Weber) Knueppel (MI/FL)
Anniversaries
- 2/01/1969: Priscilla (Tedesco) and Walter Reichel (L.I.)
- 2/02/19??: Joan (DeJohn) and Paul Brite (FL)
- 2/03/19??: Jaysen and Lisa (Sheffield) Silverman (NC)
- 2/03/19??: Donald and Kathy Werkstell (TX)
- 2/05/19??: Margarita (Cardwell) and Robert Wayne Chernok Esq. (FL)
- 2/14/2002: Lynn (McMorrow) and Marc O’Riordan (L.I.)
- 2/14/1969: Robert and Leslie Otten (SC)
- 2/14/1984: Joan (Siegl) and Fred Rudolph (FL)
- 2/14/2006: Elyse (Marlin) and Seymour Soffer (AZ)
- 2/15/1969: Barbara (Hicks) and Sean Beach (VA)
- 2/16/1957: Ann and Roy Meier (NH)
- 2/18/2000: Joan (Claudy) and Larry Berger
- 2/20/1965: Harry and Janet (McMenamin) Butcher (GA)
- 2/27/19?? – Bob and Patricia (Moore) Smith
Memory Lane
Tomato Story
An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids. He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test.
The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of $9.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day."
Taken aback, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address.
To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."
Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes.
In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.
During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly.
Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.
At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for him.
By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs 15 previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard.
Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage.
The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed over one million dollars.
Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.
When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!"
"Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors at IBM and making $9.35 an hour."
Which brings us to the moral of the story?
Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being janitor than a millionaire.
Sadly, I received it also...
Casale's Corner
Quiz for My Very Bright Friends
There are only nine questions.
This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't.
These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers...
- Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends?
- What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
- Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
- What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
- In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
- Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
- There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
- Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
- Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
Answers To Quiz
- The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing.
- North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls ... The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
- Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.
- The fruit with its seeds on the outside:Strawberry.
- How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
- Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...
- Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.
- The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.
- Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
PLEASE DO YOUR PART
Today is National Mental Health Day.
You can do your part by remembering to send this e-mail to at least one genius challenged person. Okay,my job's done!
Don't send it back to me. I've already failed it once.
