When the Locust Valley Falcons and Cold Spring Harbor Seahawks take to Fred Smith Field for the Remembrance Bowl homecoming game on Sept. 23, the teams will stand in for the American troops who liberated France during World War II.
Members of the 101st Airborne Division were not able to play the Champagne Bowl in 1944 to celebrate their victory in France, but decades later the modern unit was able to compete thanks to the efforts of the Patton Foundation and Operation Democracy. Since 2018, members of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions have played a flag football game during D-Day celebrations in Locust Valley’s sister city of Sainte-Mere-Eglise.
The Falcons will take part in the historic first state-side Remembrance Bowl celebration in front of veterans, dignitaries, family and friends.