CAPTAIN JOHN J MCKENNA IV, BORN IN OUR Bi-CENTENNIAL YEAR ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY, WAS ALSO A NY STATE TROOPER. JOHN WENT TO BROOKLYN SCHOOLS AND GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSIY OF BINGHAMTON. DURING HIS BUSY YOUNG LIFE, HE ALSO FOUND TIME TO BE AN EAGLE SCOUT.

ON AUGUST 16, 2006, WHILE CONDUCTING COMBAT OPERATIONS IN FALLUJAH, JOHN WAS STRUCK DOWN BY A SNIPER AS THE YOUNG CAPTAIN WAS GOING TO THE AID OF ONE OF HIS MEN, LCPL MIKE GLOVER. FOR HIS HEROIC ACTIONS THAT DAY, CAPTAIN MCKENNA WOULD RECEIVE OUR NATION'S 3RD HIGHEST AWARD FOR COMBAT BRAVERY, THE SILVER STAR. THIS WAS JOHN'S 3RD TOUR IN THE IRAQ WAR.

LANCE CORPORAL MICHAEL D. GLOVER, WAS MR. NEW YORK. A ROCKAWAY MAN THROUGH AND THROUGH. HE ASLO BROUGHT MUSIC TO NEW YORK'S BAR AND CLUB SCENE AS A DJ. MIKE GRADUATED FROM THE PRESTIGIOUS XAVIER HS AND LATER FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY WITH HONORS. MIKE WAS AN ASPIRING LAWYER WHO PUT HIS PACE LAW SCHOOL TRAINING ON HOLD TO VOLUNTEER FOR IRAQ AS AN UNITED STATES MARINE.

MIKE WAS MOTIVATED BY THE WAY THE COUNTRY RALLIED BEHIND HIS BELOVED NEW YORK ON 9/11, THAT HE ROUNDED UP SOME MARINES AND DROVE 1400 MILES TO HELP THE KATRINA REFUGEES. MIKE WAS THE "POINT MAN" THAT DAY WHEN THESE TWO BROOKLYN HEROES WERE TAKEN FROM US.

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