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Fireworks burstingin air everywhereCelebrate our country by watching the dazzlingaerial shows at dusk. Full list of events on 2A.

DeclareyourpatriotismCome to Freehold and joinother citizens in readingthe Declaration ofIndependence.

Watch anold-timeparadeTheres nothing likeshowing off the red, whiteand blue at a local July 4parade.

Its a partyand youre invited!Say Happy Birthday America at one of numerous carnivals,concerts and picnics.

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ADVICE 3C

BUSINESS 6A

CLASSIFIED 5C

COMICS 4C

LOCAL 3A

LOTTERIES 2A

OBITUARIES 7A

OPINION 9A

SPORTS 1D

WEATHER 8D

At least 115 died Sundayin a suicide bombing in

Baghdad claimed by ISIS. 1B

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Above and below: Spectators enjoy Fourth of July fireworks at Freehold Raceway on Sunday. See m ore photos at APP.com.

MIDDLETOWN - Joey Diaz foundsomething that seemed interesting. Sohe walked over to Richard Veit, headof the Monmouth University teamconducting an archaeological dig atSandy Hook Lighthouse, and handed itto him.

The small glass plate had ChateauLafite engraved on it.

Google it, Veit told Diaz. I think its some sortof fancy French champagne.

Close. Chateau Lafite is a leading French winelabel, one that produced some of historys mostprized Bordeaux vintages. Its presence in the soil at

the foot of the lighthouse, which was erected in 1764,indicates a past tenant with refined taste.

But who? Maybe one of the lighthouse keeperswho lived in virtual isolation at the end of this six-mile barrier spit. Or perhaps an officer in the Brit-ish Army, which held Sandy Hook as a key strategicfort throughout the American Revolution.

Diaz set aside the plate for further examination,along with the musket balls, nails, uniform buttons,tobacco pipes and scores of other artifacts Veitscrew has unearthed over five weeks. The dig con-

Digging for history at Sandy HookJERRY CARINO CARINOS CORNER

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A member of Monmouth Universitys archeology team sortsthrough items unearthed near the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. See CARINO, Page 8A

BRICK - The battle raged on the beaches of Nor-mandy when Walter Pruiksma escorted a 54-year-oldwounded French woman through the Allied front lines

to a hospital in nothing but a two-wheeled cart pulledby a single horse.Pruiksma was just 20 years old on that night 72

years ago when, as a nearly fearless military police-man who recently had landed on Utah Beach for theD-Day invasion, he volunteered to escort the woman,her son-in-law and daughter over the front line to ahospital in the French town of Carentan. The womanwas gravely ill, suffering from a grenade wound toher ankle, when her family who spoke no English beseeched the military police battalion for help.Pruiksma knew he had to help.

Vets bravery honoredAMANDA OGLESBY @OGLESBYAPP

See VETERAN, Page 5A

PETER ACKERMAN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

WWII veteran Walter Pruiksma of Brick was honored withthe French Legion of Honors insignia of chivalry.