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TUESDAY 11.11.14

VETERANS DAY

Steadfast and
courageous
Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C.
Carey says moving the cases against seven
Sayreville football players to adult court
would not best serve the interests of the
victims, the community or the defendants.

Sayreville
players will
be tried
as minors

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Angelo Recine, 90, of Toms River holds the Bronze Star medal for his service in World War II.

TR vet earned Bronze

Star in kamikaze attack

Prosecutor wont ask for

a move to adult court

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The kamikaze bore down on the USS Caperton, and

Angelo Recine stood his ground as still-green sailors,
some little more than boys, scattered.
Bullets from the Japanese Zero whizzed by his
head. The gunners mate 3rd class manned the 40 mm
gun and took aim. The pilot in the cockpit was close.
I could see him in the plane, the 90-year-old Toms
River man recalled. He was coming at me just like he
was in front of me. I can still see him. He didnt look
scared to me.
Recine was, he said.
Two years earlier, he was an All-Middlesex County
guard for the New Brunswick High School Zebras
football team. The son of a bricklayer and a Squibbs
factory worker, both Italian immigrants, left school

None of the seven Sayreville High School football

players criminally charged in connection with the hazing and sexual assault of four teammates inside the
teams locker room will be tried as adults.
Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said
Monday he will not ask a judge to waive any of the players, aged 15 to 17, to adult criminal court.
The conduct in which the juvenile defendants engaged was serious, and that is why criminal charges
were filed, Carey said. The appropriate forum for the
resolution of these cases is Middlesex County family
court. Asking the court to waive these seven juvenile
cases to adult court would not best serve the interests of
the victims, the community or the defendants.
The decision was announced Monday to defense attorneys representing the juvenile defendants, who remain under house arrest and in the custody of their parents.
Its the appropriate decision under the circumstances, said Richard Klein, an attorney from East
Brunswick representing one of the defendants.
The decision means the juvenile defendants, if convicted, will face lesser penalties than if they were found
guilty in adult court, and their identities should remain
protected because all juvenile court records are sealed.

RUSS DESANTIS/CORRESPONDENT

Angelo Recine (right) of Toms River will turn 91 later this

month. He is a WWII veteran and was awarded the
Bronze Star Medal. Hes pictured with his brothers (from
left) Carl, Vito and Sal, all now deceased.

The Greatest Generations veterans

See HEROICS, Page A6
There were 16 million World War II veterans at the end of
the war in 1945.

Brookdale center shifts

focus to dismay of many
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The mannequin in the Navy uniform disappeared

from the Center for World War II Studies and Conflict
Resolution at Brookdale Community College about a
year ago.
Some veterans and volunteers at the center took
that as a bad sign.
Other memorabilia on display at the center, in the
lobby of Bankier Library at the college in the Lincroft
section of Middletown, started to be removed as well,
adding to their concern and anger.
But when a plan was floated to give a rusted piece
of steel in a glass display case at the center back to the

5.8 million
1 million
555
27,400
Number of WWII veterans in 2000

See PLAYERS, Page A7

Number of WWII veterans in in 2014

The appropriate forum for the

resolution of these cases is Middlesex
County family court.

Number of WWII veterans dying each day

MIDDLESEX COUNTY PROSECUTOR

ANDREW C. CAREY

Number of WWII veterans in New Jersey

Laptops to blame
for election glitch

SOURCE: NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM

See CENTER, Page A6

BEST LOCAL SPORTS IN N.J.

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DOMINATE STATE PLAYOFFS?

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A glitch triggered by the failure to remove a previous program from computers during an upgrade in
September delayed the results from the Monmouth
County election on Nov. 4, County Clerk M. Claire
French said.
Four laptops used to create 916 cartridges that tallied the results in the voting machines were the source
problem,
French said. The previous system
was
of the
not uninstalled from those four computers, she said.
French said it was not the fault of the vendor, Dominion Voting Systems Inc. of Denver, nor did the blame
fall on any one individual.
We let the public down on this, and I am personally
disappointed, French said. It shouldnt have happened, and it will not happen again.

See GLITCH, Page A4

Steve Falk breaks down the playoff

matchups and points out local teams
that could make title runs. SPORTS, C1

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