Veterans Day

The events at Fort Hood yesterday are unexplainable but perhaps alert remind us of the perpetual protection countless men and women give us everyday.

I'm speaking of our armed forces. While I am a nonviolent person I have reflected very recently on family and friends who have served for America in some horrendous conditions and yet, in some cases, have barely received the due they deserve.

To the DPI, let's make Veteran's Day a day full of civic literacy, from an opening program, to visits to our ederly veterans, to preparing gift baskets for soldiers to ensuring that "the world will... never forget what they did here (Gettysburg Address)." If we want our students to have a role to play in government, let's have them look, listen and learn from the men and women who ensure that our liberties remain intact.

So while that proposal simmers, here's to our men and women. To Art, Charlie, and other instructors who have served our country, Thank You! To Mark, Dundee, Dan and others serving now, I'm with you brothers and sisters. To Uncle Arnie and others who for which Flanders Fields means a little bit more today and I know just how fortunate I am to live in the land of the free.