Garfield Langhorn

A film about Riverhead Medal of Honor recipient Garfield M. Langhorn Jr. debuted Wednesday at the Suffolk theater.

The statue of Riverhead High School graduate and Medal of Honor recipient PFC Garfield Langhorn has finally been moved to Town Hall on West Second Street. 

Sixth-graders who filled the Pulaski Street auditorium sat in total silence as speakers brought to life the story of an ordinary young man from Riverhead whose extraordinary valor in combat in Vietnam saved his fellow soldiers’ lives at the expense of his own.

The Medal of Honor posthumously awarded to PFC Garfield M. Langhorn in April 1970 will be exhibited in a glass case in the lobby outside the meeting room in Town Hall through Veterans Day.

The second Friday in the month of October will forever be remembered as PFC Garfield M. Langhorn Day, in honor of Riverhead Town's only Medal of Honor recipient, who sacrificed his own life to save wounded soldiers in the Vietnamese jungle in January 1969.

Riverhead High School unveiled the Garfield M. Langhorn Veterans Wall of Honor Tuesday afternoon. The wall holds the name of 89 veterans and fallen soldiers who attended the Riverhead Central School District.

The town has launched a project to place banners depicting Riverhead veterans on Main Street light poles.

A semipostal stamp honoring Riverhead Medal of Honor recipient PFC Garfield Langhorn will raise funds to assist low-income veteran families if legislation introduced yesterday by Rep. Lee Zeldin becomes law.

Among the military heroes honored Saturday by volunteers placing flags at graves in St. John's Cemetery and Riverhead Cemetery were the first Riverhead man killed in World War I and Suffolk's only Medal of Honor Recipient in the Vietnam War.

Students, teachers and guests packed the Pulaski Street School auditorium Oct. 18 for the 15th annual Garfield Langhorn essay contest awards ceremony.