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PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Elkton, MD Herndon PERMIT #31 Attention Postmaster: Time sensitive material. Requested in home 5-29-08 Dave Kirby, American Legion ‘Freedom Post 184 commander, urges the audience at the Memorial Day Observance in Herndon to Isn’t Free’ remember the soldiers who made News, Page 3 the ultimate News, Page 3 sacrifice for freedom. Classifieds, Page 16 Classifieds, ❖ Sports, Page 15 ❖ Real Estate, Page 13 Real Estate, ❖ Faith, Page 14 ❖ Opinion, Page 8 ‘Reality‘Reality Store’Store’ insideinside ForFor StudentsStudents News,News, PagePage 55 Uganda’s ‘Invisible Children’ Inspire News, Page 7 Photo by Andrew Dodson/The Connection Dodson/The by Andrew Photo May 28-June 3, 2008 ❖ Volume XXII, Number 22 Herndon Connectionwww.connectionnewspapers.com ❖ May 28 - June 3, 2008 ❖ 1 Stimulus Sale! 20% Off! 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They did not comply and the See Robberies, Page 4 2 ❖ Herndon Connection ❖ May 28 - June 3, 2008 Herndon Connection Editor Steven M. Mauren News 703-917-6451 or [email protected] Honoring Ultimate Sacrifice for Freedom American Legion Post 184 commemorates Memorial Day. By Mirza Kurspahic The Connection eston residents Justin Carlitti, Jr., 11, and his 7- R year-old brother Chas, stood firm in their Boy Scout uniforms while saluting the American flag as the Herndon High School Junior Naval ROTC posted the colors. Their father, Justin Carlitti, wearing a matching uniform, cor- rected Chas’s salute as the Memorial Members of the Herndon High Day Obser- School Junior Naval ROTC present vance at Photos by Andrew Dodson/The Connection the colors at Monday’s Memorial “Americans Chestnut A veteran bugler plays taps at Monday’s Memorial Day Service. Day Service. Grove Cem- must remember etery in “What do you to say to someone who’s “THE COST OF preserving our freedom might be lessened by the gatherings that that freedom Herndon be- made the ultimate sacrifice,” said Dave has always been high, yet throughout our commemorate their lives and sacrifice. gan on Mon- Kirby, commander of the Wayne M. Kidwell history, brave Americans have been ready “Let us remember our fallen comrades, isn’t free.” day morning. American Legion Post 184, serving the to pay that price,” said Fairfax County Su- not just today, but long after we leave here,” Herndon and Reston communities. “Thank pervisor John Foust (D-Dranesville). His- said Kirby. — Dave Kirby, “We’ve been coming here you is a start, but it seems woefully insuffi- toric references to the Civil War and World Herndon Mayor Steve DeBenedittis said American Legion Post for years,” cient,” he said. War II highlighted his speech, and Foust also Monday morning’s commemoration was 184 Commander said Carlitti, a Kirby encouraged the residents gathered reminded the audience to remember the representative of previous years’ Memorial Reservist Ma- at the commemoration to remember not loved ones of the soldiers who died for their Day commemorations. “This has always rine colonel. His father, also a Marine, only the servicemen and women who have country. been a big event in Herndon,” said served in Korea. “It’s important for made the ultimate sacrifice, but also their Foust referred to a letter President DeBenedittis. He said Memorial Day and these guys that they understand the loved ones. “We need to be there for them, Abraham Lincoln wrote to a mother who Veterans Day observances are important to importance of this day,” he said, point- not just as members of the American Le- lost five sons in the American Civil War and the Herndon community and one of the rea- ing to his two sons, as they joined gion, but as American citizens,” said Kirby. to a sign on an American cemetery at sons may be its proximity to Washington close to 100 people in observing Me- “Americans must remember that freedom Omaha Beach in Normandy in his key note and the Pentagon. He said Monday morial Day at Chestnut Grove Cem- isn’t free,” he said, and that freedom is only speech. He said he prayed the pain of the morning’s observance was “a wonderful and etery on Monday, May 26. possible because of the soldiers’ sacrifice. families of the fallen American soldiers very appropriate commemoration.” Families Remember Loved Ones By Mike DiCicco The Connection TAPS Survivor Seminar brings together families andra Drew of Herndon said her daughter by Photo had been too old to attend Good Grief camp from across the country. Sand her son had preferred his own network of friends for support when their father died in Bosnia in 1995. She, however, had taken solace in the country to the Double Tree Hotel in Crystal City for the Mike DiCicco the company of “other people who were dealing with event, which spilled over into Washington, D.C. and Na- the same things I tional Harbor, Md. was dealing with,” Among the event’s coordinators was another Northern “It’s nice to be with she said at a ban- Virginia resident, Ami Neiberger-Miller of Sterling, who quet at the Gaylord runs a public relations company with her husband, spe- /The Connection other people who’ve National Resort and cializing in representing nonprofits. She first contacted had that same Conference Center TAPS last October after she had gotten up to give a busi- at the National Har- ness presentation and “fell completely apart,” she said. It experience, so you bor Saturday was about a month after her younger brother had been evening, May 24. killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) while serv- don’t feel left out.” The dinner was ing in Iraq, and she decided she needed some help. Her — Brice Landstreet, almost 11 part of the 14th an- company is now contracted by TAPS, although some of her Ami Neiberger-Miller of Sterling, left, works nual National Survi- work, such as helping to manage last weekend’s seminar, and volunteers for TAPS and has also found vor Seminar, a four- is done on a volunteer basis. support in the organization. Sandra Drew of day affair sponsored by TAPS, the Tragedy Assistance Herndon has missed only two Survivor Semi- Program for Survivors. Hundreds of families who had FOR A GOOD PART of the weekend, children and par nars since 1995 — the years her two children lost a loved one to military service came from across See TAPS, Page 6 graduated from college. Herndon Connection ❖ May 28 - June 3, 2008 ❖ 3 Week in Herndon News Man Charged with Setting Fires Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department fire investigators charged a 24-year-old Herndon resident in connection with fires Joy of the Prom set on May 1. He was charged with setting fires in an occupied dwelling, in an unoccupied dwelling, involving property valued greater than $200 and involving property valued less than $200, resulting in three felonies and one misdemeanor. Two fires were set in the 1700 block of Saddler Wells Drive and the 1600 block of Winterwood Court each. No injuries were reported in the fires that caused an estimated $8,000 of damage. The suspect is being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention by Photos Center. Football Hall of Fame Raffle for HHS Robbie Hammer The Herndon High School PTSA is raffling off a football hall of fame package to benefit the school’s All Night Grad Party. The package includes four tickets to the induction ceremony, the hon- orees include Redskins Art Monk and Darrell Green, four tickets to the game, four tickets to the Football Hall of Fame, three night /The Connection hotel stay and two lunches and two dinners for four.

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