American Legion Post 1266, Wurtsboro, NY

07/20/2025

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Flag Day Essay Contest

05/30/2024

Thank you Kelford Vol. Fire Dept. and Chief Scott for going above and beyond.

03/28/2024

05/07/2023

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Joel William Welsh of Wurtsboro, a retired Town of Mamakating Town Justice, entered into eternal rest on Friday, May 5, 2023, at the Garnet Health...

10/06/2022

NASA recently released video footage of the SR-71 Blackbird, the high-altitude recon aircraft capable of reaching speeds over Mach 3.

10/03/2022

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10/02/2022

William Emmett Smith was a Korean War vet and an actor with a career spanning more than 75 years.

Smith was born on March 24, 1933, in Columbia, Missouri and grew up on the cattle ranch owned by his parents. His family later moved to Southern California, where he began his acting career at the age of eight in 1942; entering films as a child actor in such films as The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Song of Bernadette and Meet Me in St. Louis.

Smith served in the United States Air Force. A fluent Russian speaker, during the Korean War Smith was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and flew secret ferret missions over the Russian SFSR.

He was reportedly also fluent in French, German and Serbo-Croatian. He had both CIA and NSA clearances and intended to enter a classified position with the U.S. government, but while he was working on his doctorate studies he landed an acting contract with MGM.

He won the 200-pound World arm-wrestling championship multiple times and also won the United States Air Force weightlifting championship. A lifelong bodybuilder, Smith was a record holder for reverse-curling his own body weight. Smith also held a 31–1 record as an amateur boxer.

In the years from 1961 to 2014, Smith established himself as a highly prolific and profoundly talented character actor with roles in a diverse range of genres. Although often typecast as an anti-social personality, he sporadically got other kinds of roles as a law enforcement officer or an anti-heroic protagonist. His list of starring roles is actually too long to list on this post but he was in everything.

William Smith sadly died on July 5, 2021, at the age of 88.

The Giant Killer book & page honors these incredible war heroes making sure their stories of valor and sacrifice are never forgotten. The book which features the incredible life of the smallest soldier, Green Beret Captain Richard Flaherty (101st Airborne & 3rd SF Group) and several of the other heroes featured on this page is available on Amazon & Walmart.

God Bless our Vets!