Navy vet Rich Ardolino of West Long Branch cuts new names into the war veteran’s monument at RBR. (Click to enlarge)
An engraver was busy Friday adding names to a war monument on the grounds of Red Bank Regional High School in preparation for a Memorial Day ceremony Monday.
The 65 new names are those of vets whose identities became known only after the monument was erected two years ago, says Paul Sniffen of Red Bank Veterans.
The additions bring the total list, which covers veterans and those killed in action in World War II and later, to about 300.
Among the names added: Army Spc. Brian Connelly of Union Beach, a 2002 RBR grad who was killed in Iraq in February. (Born Brian Blonske, he later changed his name to his mothers maiden name.)
Ardolino at work, left. At right, a template bears the the name of Spc. Brian Connelly, the latest to die. (Click to enlarge)
Connelly’s family is expected to attend Monday’s ceremony, which begins at 10a.
According to Sniffen, there may be another 300 area vets and soldiers and sailors killed in action who are eligible to have their names on the monument.
Criteria for inclusion is that vets resided, went to school or worked in Red Bank, Little Silver or Shrewsbury, the three towns that constitute the high school district.
Here are the names being added:
1941-1951
William Beckenstein
Domenic P. Biancamano
Louis DeChiccio II
George DeLorenzo
Louis DeLorenzo
John Galatro
Jr.
William J. Galatro
Raymond
Mass
Paul W. Noglows
Joseph V. Soviero
Frank
Talerico
John Van Kirk Jr.
James A.G. Wise Jr.
Killed in Action:
Anthony T. Ariozzi
Michael A. Baden
John M. Barberio
John J. Biancamano
Joseph A. Borelli
William E. Breslin
Walter M. Buckley
Anthony S. Celli
Thomas W. Corbett
Robert D.
Davey
Phillip L. DeCarlo
Harold G. Dick
Jacques R. Eisner
Aldo Fabrizio
Morton A. Greenblatt
Robert K. Hailstork
John Hammell
Samuel T. Harvey Jr.
Gerald B. Layton
Jesse S. Leighton Jr.
Robert S. Matthews
Christopher B. Murphy
Phillip W. Nadeau
Richard Nicoletti
George W. Olmstead
Edward V.
Oryll
Alfred E. Reiss
Walter Reynolds
Dominic Scala
Kenneth W. Spinning Jr.
John T. Summonte
Walter S. Thompson Jr.
Francis J. Van Brunt
Conrado. J. Vittoria
Wallace M. Wilson
1952-62
Charles R. Bruno
John R. Choff
George Cuje Jr.
Leonard R. Cuje
Robert E. Laveratt
Bernard J. Marx
1963-73
Lawrence E. Brooks
William K. Finegan
Phillip R. De Carlo Sr.
Rafael T. De Carlo
David T. Murphy
Charles A. Pittius Jr.
Eugene Ross
Jonathan
Ross
1974-84
Albert M. DeChicchio Jr.
Michael L. Giblin
1985-95
Peter T. Biancamano
Leslie. J. Sullivan
Woodrow Sullivan
1996-2009
Killed in Action
Brian M. Connelly
