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Hi Melanie, our Veterans day party is a big one. We send out invites to family, print and frame certificates, decorate the room with the various branches, and invite local ROTC and National Gaurd in to open the party. One year we even invited the local news team out and they interviewed some of the residents, and they all really got a kick out of that!

What a fantastic idea! Thanks for sharing! I think we are for sure going to pack some hygiene care bags for homeless vets. I'll have to call around for a ROTC to come. My members would get a kick out of that.

Hi Melanie

We honored our veterans twice a year for both Veterans Day and memorial day

I invited a veteran or a group of veterans from the community to lead the celebration

Sometimes I even invited grade schoolers to witness the event and take part somehow

All the veteran shared their stories

And I opened it up to audience members who had family or friends that were in the military which included almost everybody

Everyone has a great story to tell

If I had grade schoolers there they would pass out a certificate thanking the veterans for their service

I also passed out certificates to the audience members for knowing someone in the service or for keeping the home fires burning

We then sang patriotic songs

The verterans from the community and I would visit veteran residents who were unable to

come to the group celebration

I would send pictures of the local newspaper that they printed most often