<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1eBpzU_1H6OYzpx00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1eBpzU_1H6OYzpx00" width="1600" height="1600" ><figcaption>Megan Castellano</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Dsjmy_1H6OYzpx00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Dsjmy_1H6OYzpx00" width="1824" height="1824" ><figcaption>Barbara Reitz</figcaption></figure>PATTERSON- Putnam County has a veteran population of 55,000 with about 3,850 women veterans. Neighboring counties of Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster also have 40 to 69 veterans per 1,000 residents, making their numbers comparable as well.Hudson Valley women serving in the armed forces were recognized Saturday thanks to the Patterson Rotary and Guardian Revival, groups that hosted Putnam’s 3rd annual Women’s Veterans Recognition Brunch.More than 125 people gathered at the Centennial Golf Club for the event and were welcomed by Megan Castellano, Executive Director of Guardian Revival who noted that “women veterans are often overlooked; some don’t even think of themselves as veterans, despite serving, and sacrificing, with honor in protection of our freedom.”Castellano thanked the Rotary Club of Patterson for being the “visionaries who were committed to ensuring we recognize and celebrate our local heroines.”Barbara Reitz, wife of the late Putnam County Judge James Reitz, is the proud military mom of her daughter Alyssa who at the age of eighteen enlisted in the Navy.Reitz told the forum “18 years ago when Alyssa told me she was going to enlist I replied: ‘No way!’ I am so happy she was persistent since the military made a woman out of her with a great education, experiences to travel the world and a future. I am so thankful and encourage other young women to consider a career in the military.”The New York State Health Foundation recently reported that New York is home to 800,000 veterans, 58,000 of whom are women. Women are the fastest-growing group of veterans and are projected to make up 18 percent of all veterans by 2040, yet they often go unrecognized.</div></body>

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PATTERSON- Putnam County has a veteran population of 55,000 with about 3,850 women veterans. Neighboring counties of Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster also have 40 to 69 veterans per 1,000 residents, making their numbers comparable as well. Hudson Valley women serving in the armed forces were recognized Saturday thanks to...

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PATTERSON- Putnam County has a veteran population of 55,000 with about 3,850 women veterans. Neighboring counties of Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster

Women veterans recognized in Putnam County

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