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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Former Football Star, Navy SEAL Dies at 33

Rob Guzzo Jr., a former Portsmouth High School football player, Iraq War veteran and Transformers actor, died on Monday, Nov. 12.

Friends and family are mourning the loss of a beloved and well-known former Portsmouth High School graduate, Iraq War veteran and actor, after his death on Monday.  Robert Bryan Guzzo Jr., 33, died Monday, Nov. 12, in San Diego, CA, according to the Poway-Bernardo Mortuary.   Born on Jan. 3, 1979 in San Diego, CA, Guzzo was a graduate of Portsmouth High School and a former member of the football team. He was also a graduate of SUNY Cortland, where he received a bachelor's degree in sociology, according to his IMDB resume.  According to a local blog, Guzzo was a Navy SEAL who enlisted in response to the 9/11 attacks. He served in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.  Guzzo later went on to work as an actor in California, according to his IMDB …

Scott David Gannes Esq.

6:28 am on Saturday, January 26, 2013

I find it most difficult to to have love for a country like the U.S.A. who " kills its own So called " beloved young men serving it´s nation ", for the "good" of Demacracy! As all intrinsically inteligent Human beings on this ever so wounderful ´ mother earth of ours´, innatly senses: There is absolutly no real Demacracy in this world of ours let alone in the U.S.A!! Rob Guzzo was a nobel man …   more ›

Friday, September 9, 2011

Teaching Sept. 11, to a Generation Too Young to Remember [VIDEO]

Local educators say they're grappling with how to teach the events of that day to youth who weren't old enough to understand at the time.

Portsmouth High School Principal Richard Littlefield calls Sept. 11, 2001, and the days that followed the most challenging time in his career as an educator. "I can say that unequivocally," he said. "Our students at that time were looking for answers, they were looking to be assured, they were looking to understand the world around them. ... As far as they were concerned, they were seeing the world crumble around." Now 10 years later, Littlefield leads a school of students who can't fully comprehend those feelings of shock and disbelief. That's because the memories of Sept. 11 and the events that followed are at best a blur. Like those youth, most of this country's younger generations were just small children or infants at the time of the …

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