Honoring Our Veterans. We give them one day..

We are taking the liberty to pass along the message of Gratitude to our our Veterens posted today by the Heritage Foundation, an organization to which we subscribe and can be seen on the left margin of our Home page. Honoring Veterans Day ..They give everyday, they give Life and Limb! Today, we at The Heritage Foundation are proud to honor Veterans Day by pausing to remember the men and women in uniform who serve this country. They are some of the finest this nation has to offer. Among those who have served throughout the years, the recipients of the Medal of Honor (MOH) deserve our utmost respect and admiration. They wear this august award for those who did not come home. They never refer to themselves as "winners" but see themselves as caretakers of the Medal of Honor for all who also served in harm's way in defense of freedom. The Medal of Honor is the highest award given to an American military service member who has shown extreme courage and intrepidity during combat. We at The Heritage Foundation would like to take the opportunity on this special day to introduce you to a foundation devoted exclusively to perpetuating the legacy of these heroes and their notion of service above self. The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation and its Educational Curriculum are an invaluable resource for Heritage and for our nation. Teaching lessons in character, the Foundation holds in its resources short video living biographies of over 100 recipients of the Medal of Honor. These testimonials provide the basis for a six-part curriculum that teaches students how to better understand and emulate the virtues of courage, integrity, sacrifice, commitment, citizenship and patriotism in their own lives. The interdisciplinary character development resource, "Medal of Honor: Lessons of Personal Bravery and Self-Sacrifice," uses the oral histories of Medal of Honor recipients to convey to students that not only in military circumstances, but in everyday life, everyone can demonstrate courage and sacrifice. The lessons are intended for use across grade levels using a wide variety of teaching methods. The content is appropriate for all students in any school setting and encourages the use of critical thinking and collaboration skills. This MOH Character Development Program is a research-based teaching strategy using vignettes that allow the participants to see and hear the events directly from the Medal of Honor recipient's perspective and in their own words. To see a sample of this resource, go to www.cmohedu.org. Above the log in, you can view one of the overview videos "In Their Own Words." 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We honored our American Veterans today at a special Veterans Day Mass at St. Paul's Church in Ellicott City, with Bishop Spencer Officiating along with eight other priests and seminarians. Particularly moving was the wreath laying by two very senior veterans of

WWII, still wearing their original uniforms. One had an MP band on his arm. They were preceded by a lone piper who played Amazing Grace as they walked up the aisle and placed the wreaths. There was barely a dry eye in the church.

Bishop Spencer, an Auxiliary Chaplain to the military, who is returning shortly to Afghanistan, spoke of the duty of each one of us to be veterans of our country and of God. We can't sit back and wait for others to fight for our freedom. Each one of us has a duty to get involved in preserving our Freedoms. It was a very inspiring homily.

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Marie K. Skowronek November 12, 2011 at 4:29am

We honored our American Veterans today at a special Veterans Day Mass at St. Paul's Church in Ellicott City, with Bishop Spencer Officiating along with eight other priests and seminarians. Particularly moving was the wreath laying by two very senior veterans of

WWII, still wearing their original uniforms. One had an MP band on his arm. They were preceded by a lone piper who played Amazing Grace as they walked up the aisle and placed the wreaths. There was barely a dry eye in the church.

Bishop Spencer, an Auxiliary Chaplain to the military, who is returning shortly to Afghanistan, spoke of the duty of each one of us to be veterans of our country and of God. We can't sit back and wait for others to fight for our freedom. Each one of us has a duty to get involved in preserving our Freedoms. It was a very inspiring homily.

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