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VOL. 116 - NO. 38 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 $.30 A COPY 2012 October Italian Heritage Month America in History Landing of Columbus Designs created & implemented by Constantino Brumidi (1805-1880), the Michelangelo of the United States Capitol OCTOBER IS ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH IN MASSACHUSETTS. CELEBRATE ITALIAN HERITAGE WITH A MONTH OF EVENTS. VIEW PAGES 7-10 FOR A CALENDAR LISTING The Annual Kick-off event this year will be held on Monday, October 1 at the Grand Staircase of the State House, Boston, Massachusetts from 10:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Coro Dante will be performing the American and Italian anthems and other musical selections. Attend with friends and family and show your support for October Italian Heritage Month! A proclamation by Governor Deval Patrick will be read. Honored Guest: Consul General of Italy, Guiseppe Pastorelli. A wonderful program has been planned, so please join us! Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For additional information contact: Dr. John Christoforo 781-648-5678, Kevin Caira 978-657-7734, Lino Rullo 781-862-1633 or Hon. Joseph Ferrino, Ret. 617-569-2110. News Briefs Glen Anthony Doherty by Sal Giarratani July 10, 1970 – September 11, 2012 Glen A. Doherty, 42, was the possibility of liberating Congressman John Lewis among the four Americans Iraq from a tyrant and killed while serving U.S. making democracy possible Seemingly Lives in the Past Ambassador of Libya John for the Iraqi people was U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, still apparently Christopher Stevens at the worth him risking his life. lives in the distant past. He is one of the icons of U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, In 2005, he exited the the Civil Rights movement having marched in Libya on Tuesday, SEALS, but remained his younger days with Dr. King. He was at the September 11, 2012. focused on the region Edmund T. Pettus Bridge in Alabama when state Glen was the second of through private security troopers prevented marchers from crossing over three children born to contracting work that towards Montgomery, the state capital. While Bernard “Ben” Doherty, of generally took him to the speaking to delegates at the recent Democratic Charlestown,Massachusetts, region in a pattern of about Convention, he called the idea of Voter Photo ID and Barbara Doherty, of three months overseas, a Cards a return to an ugly past when government Woburn, Massachusetts. month or two back home. officials attempted to suppress the black vote with His older brother is Greg Doherty of He worked for peace and security in poll taxes or asking blacks how many bubbles in Kensington, California, his younger sister Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and a bar of soap or how many jelly beans in a jar. Kate Quigley of Marblehead, Massachusetts. elsewhere. When at home, he lived bouncing Ironically, I saw many African-American del- Glen was very loyal to his friends and between the beaches and Cross-fit facilities egates listening to his speech after having to pro- family. He kept the same core group of of San Diego, the mountains of Utah, and his duce photo identification in order to get on the friends since elementary school. family and friends in Massachusetts and floor of the convention. Am I missing something As a 1988 Winchester High School around the country. Once he flew all his here or is John Lewis? graduate, Doherty was a member of the closest friends and family members to Mexico What About the 44 Percent??? tennis and wrestling teams. for a beach vacation and put them up in cabins It is the percentage of likely U.S. voters who After high school, Glen attended Embry for a weekend, because that was what his think both the Republican and Democratic na- Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona, priorities were about: time together. He was tional conventions are a waste of time and money, where he flew planes and rode a motorcycle. full of hilarious and adventuresome stories. this according to a new Rasmussen poll. I stopped His fearlessness took many forms throughout He was a master of both small talk and watching conventions on TV back after Reagan’s his life, but was always at his core. He encouragement. He wrote a book on sniping, second term. The best one I ever saw was in became a phenomenal skier as well as a 21st Century Sniper: A Complete Practical Chicago back in 1968 when the streets were talented cook. In the summer, he was a white Guide with his friend Brandon Webb. His way filled with violent protests and an equally violent water rafting guide down the Colorado River. of making everyone around him feel special police response. When that wasn’t going on over He was always a hard worker and extremely and loved came from the fact that he genuinely on ABC-TV, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, responsible. His athleticism also led him to looked up to all his friends, always seeing their Jr., almost got into a fist fight on live TV after become a triathlete. greatness in a way they sometimes wished their rhetoric got the best of each other. I liked A desire to push himself and to use his they could see themselves, and from the fact Ronald Reagan’s convention in 1980 because I talents to make genuine change in the world that he felt for them the purest and most loyal thought Reagan could fix the mess Jimmy Carter led him to join the Navy SEALS in 1995. He of love. created in his short four years in office. passed the training and became a paramedic At the family’s request, donations in Glen’s The networks hardly paid attention to these and sniper with the Middle East as his area memory may be made to Operations Warrior affairs. If you wanted to watch them, you had C- of operations. His team responded to the Foundation www.specialops.org, the SEAL USS Cole attack, among other missions. He Foundation www.navysealfoundation.org (Continued on Page 14) participated in two tours of the 2003 Gulf or Special Operations Warrior Foundation War, “Iraqi Freedom.” He simply believed that www.specialops.org. THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PMPM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information Page 2 POST-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 Swimming for a Good Cause Italian Amputee Salvatore Cimmino Holds Global Initiative’s 7th Stage, to Swim 17 Miles Across Boston Bay by Nicola Orichuia PICKING UP THE TAB “Picking up the tab” is an these letters or messages. by mounted messengers, expression that most people Letters to foreign countries but the thought of allowing use with hardly a thought were usually given to ship up to five years for the deliv- given to its origin. Tab in captains and then trans- ery of a long distance letter Latin is generally used when ferred to carriers in that staggers the imagination. referring to a written note or country. History tells us that Sometime around 20 B.C. mark. Interestingly ... tab as far back as 2000 B.C. the the emperor Augustus ap- expands into “tabulae” for city of Babylon had a postal pointed mounted couriers to notebook, “tabella” for writ- service. This is the area work in a relay fashion along ing tablet and "tabellarius" where people wrote on clay the public roads. He also for letter-carried. tablets and the letter-carri- provided postal stations The Latin word for letter, ers were very, very strong. which were provisioned for however, is “epistola” and Ancient Egypt also developed overnight lodging, in addi- this in turn is the origin of a system of carrying letters tion to way stations with our English word epistle. by hand, but the country of fresh horses between those L to R: Consul General of Italy in Boston Giuseppe Epistola was originally Persia under Darius (about postal stations. Each of the Pastorelli, Professor Hugh Herr, director of the intended to signify a letter 500 B.C.) probably originated communities involved was Biomechatronics Group at MIT’s Media Lab and Salvatore that was written on paper for the first national postal ser- required to furnish and main- Cimmino. transmission to another per- vice. Herodotus, a great tain the teams, keep the son. The date and place of Greek historian tells of stables in good repair, fur- When Salvatore Cimmino looks across the Boston bay, he origin were noted at the end horsemen stationed at inter- nish veterinarians, wheel- doesn’t see a vast stretch of water. What he sees is the dream of the letter, but names of vals to convey the imperial rights, grooms and guards. of an international network to help amputees like himself the sender and recipient will in all directions of the This kind of service became and disabled people all around the world lead a better life. were attached separately Persian Empire. a tremendous burden on the “We are on the eve of a very important and very difficult and not placed on the letter The vast extent of the Ro- public until the emperor stage for me,” says Salvatore, who is in Boston for a series of itself. Collections of the man Empire and its system Nerva relieved the individual meetings before a 17-mile swim on September 22, when he works of ancient Greek of roads or highways not only communities of the finan- will hold the seventh stage of his four-year “Swimming in authors boast of letters from facilitated the movement of cial obligation and ordered the Seas of the Globe” initiative.