Veterans

As the bells toll on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, we are reminded to celebrate our Veterans. Veterans are sitting beside you at church, in line at the grocery store, in your family.

My great-grandfather joined the Confederate Army, was captured at this first battle, spending the remainder of the Civil War in a P.O.W. camp in Illinois. My grandfather was drafted during the last year of World War I. My father, an ophan, joined the army at age 16 during World War II.

My husband volunteered for the Vietnam Conflict. You probably have a similar family history.

Veterans have raised their right hand since the birth of our country and sworn to serve and protect us.

Today, honor your veterans, fly the red, white and blue, say thank you in whatever way you can, Jasper County and Monticello.
Lincoln said it best in his 10 sentence Gettysburg address, “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”