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Post-Sandy Memorable Moment: Sea Bright Mayor's 'DO' Speech
The mayor addressed hundreds at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School's Borden Stadium
It's been just about four months since Hurricane Sandy hit and the ocean met the Shrewsbury River and whiped out Sea Bright.
A couple of days after the storm, Mayor Dina Long gathered residents at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School and gave a very emotional speech in the wake of Sandy's devastation.
She spoke of how, in what she thought was one of the darkest moments of her tenure as mayor, she took a walk outside to reflect and saw two letters of what was the Donovan's Reef sign stuck in the sand and debris strewn along the waterfront — the letters D and O. The mayor took it as a sign of hope for her town and took her message to her wartorn residents.
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The speech quickly became known as the "DO" speech. Patch was there on that windy, damp, dank day.
Take a look at the above original video clip of the speech and think of how far Sea Bright has come since.
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