Soldier gets remembered

[NewsWhore]

The New York City Council is renaming 185th and 186th Street, between Wadsworth Venues, Juan Alcantara Mariel Disla, in honor of the young Dominican American soldier killed in Iraq. Beginning today the avenue will be named Corporal Juan M. Alcantara with ceremonies beginning today at 11am. For many the young man's death stirred much controversy considering that he was redeployed to Iraq with only months before he would be discharged. His mother, angered at the politics behind her son's death, refused the military honors that accompanied the death of a soldier and refused the posthumous citizenship he was granted. This is the second time the New York City Council named the street after a Dominican soldier. The first was named after soldier Ryan Tejada, at the intersection of 180th Street and Juan Pablo Duarte Boulevard. Tejada was the first Dominican American killed in Afghanistan.

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