What:
Ceremony to dedicate the Carlstadt NJ Post Office to fallen hometown heroes National Guard Staff Sergeant Frank T. Carvill and Marine Lance Corporal Michael A. Schwarz as per Public Law 111-359.
Who:
The Carvill and Schwarz Families
The Honorable Steven Rothman – Congressman 9th District NJ / Bill Sponsor
The Honorable William Roseman – Mayor, Carlstadt NJ
Priscilla Maney – District Manager, USPS Northern NJ District
Michael Krysiak – Acting Postmaster, Rutherford NJ
Jane Fontana – Borough Administrator, Carlstadt NJ
Honor Guard – American Legion Post 69, Carlstadt NJ
Chief Robert Moore – Fire Department, Carlstadt NJ
Chief Thomas Nielsen – Police Department, Carlstadt NJ
Mr. Corey Moore & students – Music Dept, Becton Reg. H.S., E. Rutherford NJ
Public is welcome to attend.
When:
12:00 Noon Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Where:
Post Office
331 1st Street
Carlstadt, New Jersey 07072
Background:
The President of the United States signed Public Law 111-359 on January 4, 2011 to designate the facility at 331 1st Street in Carlstadt, New Jersey, as the ‘‘Staff Sergeant Frank T. Carvill and Lance Corporal Michael A. Schwarz Post Office Building’’.
National Guard Staff Sergeant Frank T. Carvill, 51, was killed in an ambush in Baghdad's Sadr City on June 4, 2004. Carvill was one of the oldest soldiers to die in Iraq, and had previously escaped both terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Marine Lance Corporal Michael A. Schwarz, 20, was killed by a sniper in Al Anbar province on Nov. 26, 2006. A 2004 graduate of Becton Region Regional High School and volunteer firefighter, he'd long dreamed of joining since childhood and even wore camouflage under his cap and gown at graduation.
Carlstadt hometown heroes Carvill and Schwarz are also memorialized on plaques at Borough Hall. The Borough also renamed part of Passaic Avenue after Sergeant Carvill in October 2004.
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