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Lawmaker wants Riverhead post office named for honored vet

When Garfield Langhorn, 20, joined the small, select band of Long Islanders who had been awarded the Medal of Honor - the nation's highest military award - everyone in Riverhead knew his name.

But, that was in 1969, during the war in Vietnam. Now, his mother, Mary J. Langhorn, said, some people in the community don't know who he was anymore, or even what that 40-year old war was all about.

They...

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