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Virginia Gardner

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Nov 13, 2022, 11:58:21 AM11/13/22

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It would be great if you could attend...Please pass this along through your network . Thank you...

I hope you and your sister will be able to make this event.

You are invited to participate in a remembrance ceremony to honor

Lt. Fr. Vincent Capodanno, USMC

posthumously awarded the

Congressional Medal of Honor

for his selfless acts of heroism

during the Vietnam War.

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The dedication will include a brief ceremony, speakers and the placing of a memorial brick at the Newton 911 Memorial Walkway

( See Attachment for a brief biography of Lt. Fr. Capodanno)

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November 19, 2022

^(Saturday)

11:30 AM

Newton 911 Memorial

1165 Centre Street

Newton, MA 02459

A committee, chaired by Vincent Basile,COL. (USA RET), has been formed to recommend to the U.S. Postmaster General that a Commemorative Stamp be created to keep alive the memory of this outstanding Italian American

who gave the last full measure of his life for

God, Family and Country.

For more information contact conveners:

Virginia Gardner / Virginia...@aol.com/ 617-721-1062

Domenic G. Amara,Ph.D./doma...@aol.com / 617-913-67842

light refreshments to follow.