AMVETS post eyed for Rotterdam Local veterans seek to establish first post in county
County Legislator Angelo Santabarbara, far left, talks to members during the Rotterdam AMVETS meeting, from left, “E J” Knapik, of Glenville, Carl Petrone, of Duanesburg, and Michael McGrath, of Rotterdam, on Thursday, Dec. 29. The group decided to form a brand new post after debating whether to move Post 21 to Rotterdam. Photo by John Purcell. By John Purcell As of Friday, January 6, 2012 Sign in to favorite this Discuss
#Rotterdam — Angelo Santabarbara wanted to join a local veterans organization, but there was a problem — there wasn’t one he could join.
#Santabarbara, a Democratic county legislator from Rotterdam, served in the Army Reserves for eights years until 1998. Once he started looking around at local veteran groups, he realized he wasn’t eligible to join any.
#“I wanted to be a part of an organization with other individuals like myself that served,” Santabarbara said.
#Eventually he stumbled upon AMVETS, a veterans organization that includes members from each branch of the military, including National Guard and Reserves members. Active duty members of the military can join, too.
#The broad range of acceptance in AMVETS is also what was appealing to Santabarbara.
AS is a clown. Not worthy of response. It's a nonsense fluff piece worthy only as bird cage liner.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ~ H.L. Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ~ H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ~H. L. Mencken
I suspect that A-jello must have shares in that paper since he is featured with fluff in just about every issue.
YUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......AND he helped NYS integrate national healthcare(notice I didn't say Obamacare) into our F'EN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.....F'EN YAY......NAZISM.......READ IT ALL FOLKS.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Oh so no one can speak unless they served? You mean like Obama? Or how about Tonko? Can he have an opinion? Can Schumer? Or does he need to remain silent? How about SB? Does SB have an honorable discharge? Or does he suffer from an anal discharge? Your kids might get cancer so be careful with the bile. I am praying for it to happen, you POS. I will piss on the graves. That is the kind of guy I am, not really nice at all, right? Keep pushing... but hope I don't get cancer
hey grhamie, what branch of the service did u serve in? just wondering, you know./////
that's a pretty low blow even coming from someone like you smokey!
Many of us have had fathers, uncles, cousins, sons/daughters, friends who have served and wounded and even KILLED for our country. So don't think that being 'patriotic' or 'supporting servicemen/women' is an exclusive club only for those who have served.....k?
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
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