Memorial Day, 2018

Shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday, May 28, 2018, members of the Seaford American Legion Post 1132 led the Memorial Day parade north on Washington Avenue. My camera balked as they passed, so I offer photos of some following marchers.

Clicking on any photo will enlarge it.

Any photo may be enlarged by clicking on it. I have not yet learned when this monument was erected, nor have I learned how many people from the hamlet (not village) of Seaford participated in the Great War in France. A hundred years ago was the first American battle of the war, a victory at Cantigny. which cost 199 American lives.

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The beautification of this monument is a project of the Seaford Wellness Council.

A hundred years ago

A hundred years ago, on July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.  In 1917, the United States entered the "Great War," leading to this memorial facing Sunrise Highway in front of the Seaford train station.  Any photo may be enlarged by clicking on it.

Newsday has taken the alphabetical list of World War I dead as assembled by volunteers at the New York State Military Museum and made it more searchable by community, linked here. Entering community names Seaford, Massapequa, Wantagh, Bellmore, and Merrick comes up with no names.  The list for Hempstead shows eight, but it is ambiguous whether it is Town or Village of Hempstead.  As Baldwin is unincorporated, but listed with six losses, I surmise that communities with "no names" did not suffer deaths. The lists show how, in combat, illnesses also could be fatal.  

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Many thanks to all who served.