In this mostly blue-collar town, children spend the summer around their homes, where the tornado found them on Tuesday afternoon.

"Peekskill traditionally has been a blue-collar town, and we want the middle class to be able to afford to live here," he said.

For a month, nothing has been as it should be for the children in this blue-collar town.

She lived about 45 minutes north of New York in a small blue-collar town.

It's a blue-collar town that made its wealth in industry.

Supporters had argued that a new name would enhance property values in the largely blue-collar town.

A blue-collar town of about 22,600, Ossining has long had a housing shortage.

But it is not the kind of scene that this tidy little blue-collar town has been able to accept.

"The demographics do not support the concept of Oxford being a blue-collar town," he said.

It seems that before Saturday, his son's accomplishments drew little attention in this blue-collar military town, population 195,000.