Honoring all who have served
All Veterans deserve the presentation of honor that they have earned, on this Veterans Day, 11 November 2018, and every day.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day, in the 11th month, of 1918, an Armistice was signed, ending WWI, a year later the first Armistice Day was observed. It was believed that WWI was the war to end all war. Unfortunately this presumption was ill fated. As a result of subsequent sacrifices, the name was changed to honor all who served.
Thank you for your selfless service and your selfless sacrifices my Veteran Friends!!
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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