Ahead of the Remembrance Bowl, a game meant to honor soldiers who gave their lives in the D-Day invasions at Normandy, the Locust Valley High School Falcons and Cold Spring Harbor High School Seahawks varsity football teams met to sign each other’s gameday jerseys on Sept. 21.
Football players and cheerleaders from each team came to the Locust Valley High School cafeteria for team dinners, then headed to the auditorium where Helen Patton, the daughter of General George Patton, spoke to students about the bravery of Allied troops who liberated Europe.
Patton and the teams then headed to the gymnasium to sign the gameday jerseys that were made specifically for the Remembrance Bowl. Each player from both teams signed every jersey, as well as two jerseys to be sent over to Locust Valley’s sister city, Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France to be displayed at the site where the Remembrance Bowl began in 2018 as a flag football game between the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions.