thedrifter
05-08-06, 12:39 PM
Street named for LI fallen soldier
BY WIL CRUZ
Newsday Staff Writer
May 8, 2006, 12:19 PM EDT
A street was renamed this morning in honor of one of Long Island's fallen soldiers in Iraq, a Hauppauge resident who enlisted with the Marine Corps after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Lincoln Boulevard, in front of Hauppauge High School, will now bear the name of Jared Kremm, 24, who was killed in October in an explosion in Saqlawiyah, Iraq. He was the 13th soldier from Long Island killed in the war in Iraq.
A ceremony was held this morning at Hauppauge High School, where Kremm was a student and played football. Kremm's family was joined by, among others, Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), Hauppauge students and officials, and fellow Marines.
"We thought that this would be an important way of ensuring that a future generation of students ... know about his sacrifice on their behalf," said Israel, who attended Kremm's funeral in November. "We're doing this at the school to try and teach students ... that we all have the right to agree with the decision to go to war ... to disagree with it ... or to remain silent.
"But no one has a right to forget the sacrifice of our troops or their families," he added.
Kremm was raised in Bay Shore but later moved to and attended high school in Hauppauge. Relatives have said he followed his grandfather and uncle into the Marines, but was particularly moved by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
The lance corporal with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary was serving his tour in Iraq.
Ellie
BY WIL CRUZ
Newsday Staff Writer
May 8, 2006, 12:19 PM EDT
A street was renamed this morning in honor of one of Long Island's fallen soldiers in Iraq, a Hauppauge resident who enlisted with the Marine Corps after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Lincoln Boulevard, in front of Hauppauge High School, will now bear the name of Jared Kremm, 24, who was killed in October in an explosion in Saqlawiyah, Iraq. He was the 13th soldier from Long Island killed in the war in Iraq.
A ceremony was held this morning at Hauppauge High School, where Kremm was a student and played football. Kremm's family was joined by, among others, Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), Hauppauge students and officials, and fellow Marines.
"We thought that this would be an important way of ensuring that a future generation of students ... know about his sacrifice on their behalf," said Israel, who attended Kremm's funeral in November. "We're doing this at the school to try and teach students ... that we all have the right to agree with the decision to go to war ... to disagree with it ... or to remain silent.
"But no one has a right to forget the sacrifice of our troops or their families," he added.
Kremm was raised in Bay Shore but later moved to and attended high school in Hauppauge. Relatives have said he followed his grandfather and uncle into the Marines, but was particularly moved by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
The lance corporal with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary was serving his tour in Iraq.
Ellie