Afghanistan vet struck by car, killed
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Seamus Byrne from New York National Guard's Fighting 69th, receives the Purple Heart as he returns from Afghanistan. (Jan. 7, 2009)
Purple Heart recipient Seamus Byrne
LI car accidents
Seamus Byrne came through the badlands of Afghanistan with a concussion and a Purple Heart. He came home to Smithtown to start life again with his wife and their two children, and it was there that he died, struck by a car early Sunday as he crossed Main Street.
He had been celebrating his 33rd birthday with his wife and their friends and was on his way home, said his father-in-law, James...
