Veterans Day in the Library

Students in the library decorated cards for our local veterans. We started the lesson by learning what Veterans Day is, then read books about service men and women (Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, America's White Table, Rolling Thunder, Veterans: Heroes in our Neighborhoods and Maggie the Military Rat .) Afterward kindergarten through fifth grade students decorated thank you cards and wrote messages to local veterans and family members who are veterans. 

Some of the cards were given to our Snow families who have veterans in their families during our Veterans Day assembly. The remaining cards were dropped off at City Hall to Faith Jackson who is the Veterans Service representative. She will distribute them to veterans at the Veterans Day ceremony in town. Connecticut Veterans Affairs, in partnership with the Middletown Veterans Council, will host the Veterans Day Ceremony on Wednesday, November 11, at 2:00 p.m. The ceremony will be held at the State Veterans Cemetery, located at 317 Bow Lane in Middletown.