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Successful Freedom Fighters Outdoors Event in Montauk
After 2 days of fishing off Montauk Sal and Jennifer Zatkowski host a dinner at their East Lake Drive home for 25 vets and friends.
In a salute to the nation's heroes, Freedom Fighters Outdoors sponsored 25 United States vets to two days of fishing in the waters off Montauk recently.
Sal Zatkowski, who hosted the after party on Thursday evening at his East Lake Drive home in Montauk said it was very successful.
He proudly announced to the 75 attending the after party that Rich Torres caught the largest fish, a 35.4 lb. striped bass. During the event, 25 vets flew and drove into Montauk on Tuesday to fish Wednesday and Thursday on 6 fishing vessels, including a 62-footer, he said.
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Freedom Fighters Outdoors is a charity for injured veterans, organized to show gratitude to veterans and their families for their sacrifices and to raise awareness and seek public support to help address needs, services and activities.
The injured service veterans assist one other through teamwork based on outdoor recreational activities. The organization seeks to provide unique, once in a lifetime outdoor activities to honor and empower the nation's injured service veterans and assist in their transition from the armed services to civilian life.
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What better place to achieve these goals then Montauk? With its plentiful and abundant quality sport fishing right off shore and its reputation as a world class fishing village, all the vets were pleased and amazed at how beautiful Montauk is. They all had a thrill fishing off the famed and historic Montauk Lighthouse. Rough sea conditions limited this year's fishing; however the vets were all thumb's up about their experience.
The party, too, was a success as was the whole three days due to the efforts of as Sal put it, "Too many to mention . . . really all good and special people."
One was Sal's wife, Jennifer, who personally made a lot of the appetizers and was supervising the buffet/ BBQ, which included a whole roasted pig.
This was the second year Sal and Jennifer have hosted the event at their beautiful home on East Lake Drive overlooking Montauk Harbor. With a beautiful Montauk sunset as a backdrop, Helen "Diva" McGuire provided musical entertainment, including her karaoke, second to none in the Hamptons.
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