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Remembering Massachusetts' Fallen VOL. 120 - NO. 23 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, JUNE 3, 2016 $.35 A COPY Remembering Massachusetts’ Fallen On the grassy knoll beneath the Sailors and Soldiers monument on the Boston Common, a garden of 37,000 American fl ags waved in the sunshine on Memorial Day. This annual tribute honoring the Massachusetts war dead from the Revolution through today is sponsored by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund with support from John Hancock. Hundreds of volunteers planted the fl ags before the long weekend and watched over this holiday tribute throughout. A ceremony was held at 10:30 am on the Thursday prior to Memorial Day where the names of all the military personnel who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were read. (Photos by Jeanne Brady) News Briefs Boston’s Run to Remember by Sal Giarratani by Sal Giarratani Last Sunday, May 29th, the Boston’s Seaport All proceeds of this annual run benefit World Trade Center was once again the venue community and kids' programs of the Boston Millennials Catch Up with Baby Boomers for the 2016 Boston Run to Remember. Last Police Runners Club. year's event brought out 9,000 runners. This I caught up with several of the runners after A new analysis of census data shows that millennials year, the 12th Annual Run to Remember saw they had returned to East Boston for some are now tied with baby boomers for the largest share of an equal number of runners. This annual run relaxation at the Maverick Marketplace Cafe. eligible voters. The Pew Research Center says boomers began as a way to honor all fi rst responders They all had completed the 5-Mile Run and hold a very slight edge, but each group comprises about who have been killed in the line of duty by when I told them I was a retired police offi cer, 31 percent of the electorate. But Pew also shows that celebrating their lives and by giving back to they replied they ran to honor me and all fi rst only 46 percent of millennials actually vote, while 69 community. responders, living and deceased. percent of boomers vote. My daughter is a millennial, I am a boomer. My daughter votes and I vote. Actual voters vote because of the example given to them as children. I am not surprised my daughter votes. I would be disappointed if she didn’t. In my own family, voting was a duty. It should be for everyone, but sadly it isn’t. VA Wrongly Classifi ed 4,200 Dead? U.S. Rep David Jolly, R-Florida, said the Veterans Administration cut off benefi ts to more than 4,200 folks nationwide after declaring them dead. However, said Jolly, “they were very much alive,” and their benefi ts restored after the VA looked into things. I am thinking, if you like the status quo at the VA continuing, veterans can really die and it won’t be a computer error. Hacker at Heart of Email Case Pleads Guilty to ID Theft The Romanian hacker whose cyber-mischief fi rst revealed that Hillary Clinton used a private email ad- dress while Secretary of State recently pleaded guilty to identity theft. Marcel Lehel Lazar said that he vic- timized nearly 100 Americans from his overseas home. His targets included former Secretary of State Colin Powell, family members of George W. Bush and lots of celebrities. (Continued on Page 14) Shown in photo are JoAnne Lyons and Dick Lyons of Reading and in the middle of the group were Justina Lyons, Courtney Macaruso and Eleni Dixon, all of East Boston. THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE HAS MOVED TO 343 CHELSEA ST., DAY SQUARE, EAST BOSTON This offi ce is open on Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information PAGE 2 POST-GAZETTE, JUNE 3, 2016 Save Hanover Street Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Turiello by Marie Simboli Nostra When is it all going to ask ourselves some questions. to direct traffi c as it is, let alone stop? Think of all the issues What responsibility does a shop decide one-way or no-way for A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our we have in the North End that owner take for their customers Hanover Street. ancestry...our lineage...our roots. need attention, and there are a lined up outside the door and I have heard this remark said chosen few that think CLOSING around the corner, taking up the more than once, “If you don’t DOWN HANOVER STREET is whole sidewalk so you can’t get like it here, move!” Many North CARCER the hottest??? Really?? Will that by? Does the owner of the shop End residents have lived here address any of problems that decide to put one of his or her ALL their lives and they have RESIDENTS have been asking workers outside to form a line to no intention of moving. Why to be addressed for years?? the left or right of his or her pas- should they have to? Why can’t Cross-walks need to be re- try shop’s door and not crowd we work together to make the painted, cars DO NOT STOP. the sidewalk so that residents North End better? Not just for We have children and elderly in and tourists can get by? Some you, but for everyone, including the North End that walk these of the restaurant owners are not the residents. THINK BEFORE streets while cars continue not far behind with this situation- YOU MAKE CHANGES! to STOP, and race by without -lines out the door! It’s not only I will say this, changes are any consideration that they are on Hanover Street, it also hap- made all the time without no- in a residential area. pens on Prince Street and Salem tifying the residents. Consider- Traffi c lights on Cross and Street. Good for business, but a ation and concern about quality Hanover Street: one sign says pain in the you-know-what for of life should be ALL ABOUT WALK and the light turns green the rest of us. THE RESIDENTS. Business at the same time. It has been Closing down Hanover Street owners and restaurant owners reported time and time again. is not the solution. I also un- close up shop, get in their cars PLEASE do something about derstand they want to widen and go home. They have no idea Mamertine prison in the Roman Forum. This is where Apostles this corner! We have thousands the sidewalks like Newbury about the noise, the parties, the Peter and Paul were incarcerated. of tourists that walk that area Street. Is there a reason? Of fi ghts, and people talking on In Latin, “carcer” means pris- also of stone. The only means as well as the residents. It’s a course there is, so restaurant the sidewalk until 3 am. WHEN on, jail, or prisoner and is the of entrance was through a hole serious safety issue for every- owners can put out tables and DOES IT STOP? Mayor Walsh, origin of the English word in- in the roof. one. chairs and have customers eat I hope you read this article and carceration. “Capitalis” relates Prisoners were tightly bound Trash containers are con- outside. What a great idea, just try to understand how we North to laws affecting a man’s life and lowered by ropes. Execu- stantly fi lled and the trash is like Italy! I don’t know if Italy End residents feel. You are the or civil status. Capital punish- tioners descended by ladders, everywhere. We never have has rodents, but we do and only one that can allow closing ment can be simply defined either to chain the prisoners to enough trash containers for plenty of them. So let’s make of Hanover Street. Please work as the death penalty. History the walls, or to execute them in dog owners and we wonder why it easier for Mickey and his ex- with us so we can honestly say, is history, facts are facts, and the lower chamber — the Tul- the dog trash bags are all over tended family. They don’t have “Thank you Mayor Walsh for we shouldn’t be led to believe lianum. Church legend tells us the area? to go inside anymore; they can being there for the North End that all was peaches and cream that St. Peter and St. Paul were What about the paper cups, be just as happy sitting under residents.” during “those good old days.” imprisoned here during the spoons, napkins and wrap- the table waiting for the food to Working together is the best Evidence of man’s inhuman- time of Nero, and that a spring pers that are thrown on the drop. Please, let’s not make our way to make this over-crowded ity to man probably goes back miraculously started to fl ow in streets? Do any of the shops rodent problem any worse than situation work best for every- to the very beginning of time. order that St. Peter might bap- have containers near their it already is! one. We can call for a meeting- One early account tells of “Tul- tize the other prisoners. place of business to dispose of I have lived here all my life. -all residents, business owners, lus Hostilius,” the third of the “Cruciatus” or “cruciare” are this trash? We have no control We never, ever had a rodent restaurant owners, etc.
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