Archives for November 2012

It all began 16 years ago, in the summer of ’94.  Military medals, belonging to my godfather & uncle, Roy Juers of Oyster Bay, had been missing from the family for the better part of 15 years.  Then out of nowhere, they miraculously reappeared, through an altruistic gesture by James Knight, an Oyster Bay sanitation […]

So both sides of my family are from Nassau County, Long Island.  And I’m named after my uncle Roy J. Juers, second-youngest of my father’s 5 brothers. That’s why I’m Roy J. Juers II, not Roy Jr.  Uncle Roy was my godfather (my mom’s sister, my Aunt Barbara is my godmother… she factors in later). […]