South Queens, New York – This past Sunday, May 26th, and Monday, May 27th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-South Queens) marched in three parades and attended memorial services to honor fallen soldiers of South Queens and throughout the United States. On Sunday, she marched in the Broad Channel Parade, which started with a wreath-laying ceremony at the 17th Road Park Flag Pole and then traveled along Cross Bay Boulevard to the George Riekers Veterans Memorial Park. On Monday, she joined the Howard Beach Memorial Day Parade at Coleman Square, then marched in the Rockaway Memorial Day Parade.

“This is a community of service. As my neighbors know too well, be it on 9/11, in World War II or in Iraq or Afghanistan, sometimes service means paying the ultimate price,” said Pheffer Amato. “On Memorial Day we honor and pay tribute to those who died. We remember them as heroes and as people, as family members and as friends. Everything we have today, from our freedom to our prosperity, we thank them for. It was an honor to stand with so many of my neighbors from all across the district to start our summer the right way, by remembering and appreciating those who made it all possible.”