TO ALL:
There has been event requests for attendance if you are able to make it.
An event is scheduled for Friday, August 10, 2018 which will be for the Honoring of unclaimed Veterans that will be laid to rest at the State Veterans Cemetery located on Bow Lane in Middletown.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the CT. Funeral Directors Association will be placing 4 unclaimed Veterans in their final resting place. There is a possibility of 3 more added to this pending the receipt of paperwork if received in time.
Procession Departs Dept. of Veterans Affairs, 287 West Street, Rocky Hill around 9:30am and Interment Ceremonies will be held at the Bow Lane Veterans Cemetery at 10:30am.
Please try to make it if available to show that these Veterans ARE NOT FORGOTTEN…..
I am not a veteran. I am a member of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary. But in 1991, personal loss brought me to a place I never left.
Over two decades later, that loss led me to the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut, where I took on the coordination of Wreaths Across America — which grew into the largest and fastest growing veterans program in the state. I didn’t do it for recognition. I did it for them.
In 2016 I founded the Connecticut Veterans Bulletin. Not because I served, but because I believe those who did deserve to be honored, connected, and kept alive.
Twenty-two veterans die by suicide every day. I knew about that number before it became a hashtag. I knew it personally, long before anyone was talking about it.
This publication exists because that number is unacceptable. Because every veteran in Connecticut deserves to know someone gives a damn.
That someone is me.
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