Brooklyn actor pays tribute on Veterans Day with “Just a Common Soldier”
The rain couldn’t scare these veterans away as Brooklyn-born actor Tony Lo Bianco and the Times Square Advertising Coalition hosted an event in Times Square on Tuesday morning, in honor of Veterans Day, to pay tribute to the 21 million living veterans who served in the military.
“It is a great honor to be here,” Lo Bianco said. “I just want to make clear that we are concerned, very much, and praise our veterans very much. We want to make sure that the VA takes care of them. They are our heroes.”
Even in the heavy rain, dozens of people, veterans, active duty soldiers and other dignitaries showed up in Times Square for the viewing on the Clear Channel screen near 47th Street. The five-minute video is a reading by Lo Bianco of an A. Lawrence Vaincourt poem known as “A Soldier Died Today.”