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EPORT MEMORIAL LIBRARY tfflck Read I Ocsan Avenue •ii8p0rt,fiY. 11520
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Sgt. Julian Are-chaga, USMC of; Baldwin will be waked at Hungerford ' and Clark Funeral Home, 110 Pine Street, Freeport, this Thursday and Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A funeral mass will be conducted Sat-; urday at Our Holy Redeemer Church, 40 South Ocean Avenue, Freeport, at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 21. Burial will follow at Greenfield Cemetery, 650 Nassau Road, Uniondale, at 10:45 a.m. In lieu of flowers the family has ' asked that donations be sent to Toys for Tots, 605 Stewart! Avenue, Garden City, | NY 11530.
PROVIDING "SOME KIND OF HOPE"; Julian Arechaga and friends in Fallujah, Iraq.
Juliliii Arechaga dies in Iraq
by Joan Delaney
(We thank the Randazzo and Arechaga family for speaking with us during this difficult time. We met on Friday, October 13, and the following conversation took place just hours before they left for the airport to meet Sgt. Julian Arechaga's wife Felicia, who was arriving with a military escort.)
Flags are flying at half mast as Baldwinites pay tribute to one of their own, Sgt. Julian Arechaga, 23, who died in Al Anbar province in Iraq on October 9, when an explosive hit the Humvee in which he was riding.
"We believe he was in the passenger seat, the most dangerous, because he wanted to be an example to his men. He was a good soldier; he loved this country and felt that the people in Iraq needed us, needed some kind of hope. I feel like I lost a son and a brother," said Russ Randazzo, the brother-inrlaw of Sgt. Arechaga. . Mr Randazzo, only 33 himself, and
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his wife Sheyla, Sgt Arechaga's sister, who were married in 1998, helped raise the young Julian, whose parents were divorced. "He was a funny kid. He went to Plaza School and the middle school. Sheyla and I went to Open School Night there and people looked at us. But we wanted him to know that someone cared.
"He told us no one cared, but we told him that we cared. He lived with us. I was waiting for him to come home. He used to kid me because I was the only guy in the house. His mother was here and my wife and the kids. I was the only guy and he used to say to me, 'Why doii't you just put on a dress?' He was like my brother, my son."
Eventually, Julian attended Oceanside High School, where he was on the honor roll. He loved wrestling and the mairtial arts and anything to do with the military. "He came home and told us he had heard recruiters at school and that he wanted to become a Marine. He went weekends in Hempstead in preparation for boot camp. Boot camp was hard but Julian and another guy graduated at the top of the platoon.
"His first tour he went to Afghanistan and was part of the big push during elections against the Taliban. He said it was hot, but he felt that they were doing great work.
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He came home and showed us pictures.
"He considered the Marines his family and he was so happy being a Marine that we knew it was the right thing for him.
"Then Julian went to Iraq, to Fallujah and it was
tough. We know that he
was involved in night patrols, getting intelligence. He was a squad leader and they were capturing insurgents. He won awards. (continued on page 9)
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| Title | The-Leader_2006-10-19 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2006 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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