Veterans Day

Just wanted to take a minute and remember all those who have served in the Armed Forces!!! I have a Grandpa who served in WW2 and 2 uncles that served in Vietnam and now a husband and a brother currently on active duty and deployed. When I was in High School I was in JROTC and every year we would go and march in the Veterans Day parade...what an honor it was to be able to honor those who have and are serving. I am thankful that my child is in a school district that honors Veterans Day, that is not something that happened in my school district as a kid and I think it is important for kids to know and acknowledge this day!!! My sister in law sent me a story called Sack Lunches yesterday and at the end was this quote...I dont know who said it but it really touched me!!!!

"A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.'" -unk

Thank you to those who have written those checks to the USA to keep us safe and give us the freedoms we have today...thank you for taking the fighting overseas so that my children dont have to wake up to gun battles and bombings and can feel safe in their home! God Bless the Armed Forces!