Staff Sgt. Derek Farley would not have wanted anything named in his honor, said his mother, Carrie Farley.<\/p>\n
“He would be yelling at me right now if he saw this,” she said with a smile Sunday at a ceremony naming the bridge after her son, who was killed Aug. 17, 2010 trying to defuse a roadside bomb in the western Afghanistan city of Farah. “He wouldn’t have wanted the attention. He was a soldier through and through.”<\/p>\n
A small stretch of pavement and stone on Route 20, The Staff Sergeant Derek Farley Memorial Bridge runs over the Valatie Kill, right on the Schodack-Nassau town line. The road is a main artery for many who commute through Rensselaer County.<\/p>\n
“When people drive to and from work, they’re going to see this and remember Derek,” said Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, R-Schaghticoke.<\/p>\n
Naming the bridge after Farley was McLaughlin’s idea. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They don’t do it to get pieces of public property named after them, but if that’s what it takes to remind people of their sacrifices….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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