Posts Tagged ‘Hero’
Vince Lombardi a god in Wisconsin, a hero in Brooklyn
I’m standing in the traffic triangle at E. 17th St. and Jerome Ave., American flag snapping overhead, where I’m asking jaywalkers about Sunday’s Giants-Packers game. I point to a small brass plaque in the sidewalk: “IN MEMORY OF VINCE LOMBARDI: 1913-1970 — Dedicated by the Sheepshead Bay Chamber of Commerce 1974.”
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Woman battles to get Jewish father, World War I hero, his Medal of Honor
It was bravery at the highest level: William Shemin defied German machine gun fire to sprint across a World War I battlefield and pull wounded comrades to safety. And he did so no fewer than three times.
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Smirking cop killer apologizes for shooting death of NYPD hero
Sorry’s not good enough. The accused triggerman in the slaying of Brooklyn Police Officer Peter Figoski apologized after police nabbed him and his four accomplices.
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Havel, hero of anti-communist revolution, dies (AP)
AP – The end of Czechoslovakia’s totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for with decades of suffering and struggle.
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Havel, hero of anti-communist revolution, has died (AP)
AP – Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan” and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule.
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Hero NYPD cop Peter Figoski shot & killed by robber in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn His partner Glenn Estrada arrests suspect; 2nd man being sought
A manhunt was under way Monday for the gunman’s accomplice after a highly decorated NYPD officer was shot in the face and killed responding to a Brooklyn robbery.
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Hero NYPD cop Peter Figoski shot & killed by robber in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn
A highly decorated NYPD officer was shot in the head and killed as he confronted a robber in Brooklyn Monday morning, police said.
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