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Fallen Army Ranger from LI remembered as 'greatest guy'

An Army Ranger guard carries a casket Monday

Photo credit: David Pokress | An Army Ranger guard carries a casket Monday with the body of Army Ranger Sgt. Jason Santora from Wantagh Abbey. Santora, of Farmingville, was 25. (May 3, 2010)

By the coffin bearing the body of Sgt. Jason Santora at Calverton National Cemetery, a father, a mother and a sister wept.

Close by during the military ceremony honoring the Army Ranger, a cross section of Long Islanders choked back tears - a high school friend now with the 106th Air Rescue Wing at Westhampton Beach, a father whose son is stationed at the same fire base in Afghanistan where...

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