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They made the ultimate sacrifice in support of the Gulf War and War on Terror. On Friday, families of those soldiers were honored.&nbsp;&nbsp;

They made the ultimate sacrifice in support of the Gulf War and War on Terror. On Friday, families of those soldiers were honored.  

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Gold Star family remembrance ceremony held at Haverstraw Bay Park

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well, they made the ultimate sacrifice in support of the gulf war and the war on terror and today families of those soldiers were honored. Photojournalist kurt Fischer takes us to a gold star family remembered ceremony in Haverstraw Bay Park, Emmanuel Lopez. He always wanted to be a marine. The veterans really don't forget the fallen. They really don't internal gratitude and respect in the memory of Semen. Gilbert Fontaine by displaying the symbol collectively as a nation recognizes the enormity of your loss and respectfully say he enlisted, he was stationed on the USs Saratoga in Haifa Israel. That's where the tragedy happened. You know, it means a lot every time we do it. You know, it's it's it's difficult. You know, you go through that horrible, horrible experience, both pain and joy and then go through the pain of hearing one of your own and then lost you go through the joy finances, not yours and then you have the guilt because it's someone else's child. He served in Iraq and the first time he went, you know, he came back and then the second time is when we, when they had the accident over there. So you see in the center of that wall in the very back of us, there's a gold star there and that gold star represents all gold stars from all wars. They were trying to cross a bridge, portable bridge and somehow the driver, he turned on top of the bridge and they felt into the canal and they were just as proud of them today as we were when he was alive. So it gives us, you know, inspiration, motivation as if he was still here. It really means a lot and it touches not just me, but my family continues to be acknowledged and memorialized and it feels good. And Westchester County is also honoring the families who lost a loved one in service, county officials and residents got together in Kensico Dam.

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