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WORLD WAR II NAVY VETERAN LUCY LASSER SALPETER OF WOODMERE AND NEPONSIT TO BE HONORED AS A GRAND MARSHAL IN MEMORIAL DAY PARADE

Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade
Grand Marshal Lucy Lasser Salpeter

Lucy Lasser Salpeter, 90, of Woodmere and Neponsit, and World War II veteran will be honored as the first and only female Grand Marshal on Monday afternoon, May 26^th at the Little Neck/Douglaston Memorial Day Parade, the largest such parade in the nation. Salpeter is one of five World War II veterans selected to lead the parade.

Lucy Lasser Salpeter graduated from Hofstra College (now University) and New York University where she completed her Occupational Therapy internship.  She enlisted in the United States Navy as a WAVE. At the time she joined the WAVES, there were approximately 84,000 women of which 8,000 were officers; Lucy rose to the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade by the end of her service. She served at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland and St. Albans in Queens, NY. Lasser provided care for thousands of those in wounded from the Navy, Coast Guard, Marines and Merchant Marines.

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Chanting “hey hey, ho ho, Andrew Cuomo’s gotta go,” a coalition of over two dozen vocal Queens and Nassau residents held a press conference today at Queens Borough Hall organized by the Queens Village Republican Club, to announce Governor Cuomo’s interim performance evaluation. Earlier this year, when the Governor made his offensive and arrogant remarks that if you don’t agree with his political views, you have no place in the State of New York, we came out to Borough Hall on a cold snowy day and raised our voices demanding an apology. We gathered today to let all New Yorkers hear that we’re going to change the Status Cuomo and stop the decline of New York, come November.

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