Veterans Day celebration

Once again we celebrated Veterans Day at the local school. They put on a REAL nice celebration to honor all the vets in the village. Here are Georgia and Josie standing in front of their Grandpa B. Each vet is called by name and then their family members (that are in the school) walk up the gym to the state to place a medal around their necks. Georgia and Josie are standing amongst their cousins.
If you can spot the three grown men in the back of this crowd they are from left to right: Grandpa B, his brother Jim and another brother Fred. I wish I could remember which branches of the military they were in (Grandpa B was in the Army) but I can't.

They handed out poppies at the school and we learned this:

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row”
The poppy is a symbol of remembrance dating from World War I. Major John McCrae, a doctor, wrote the poem “In Flanders Field” after treating Canadian, British, Indian, French and German soldiers from the battle at Ypres, Belgium. He could see wild poppies springing up in the cemetery from where he wrote the poem. When you wear a poppy or display a wreath, you honor the war dead, ex-service personnel and their dependents. The VFW sells paper poppies to raise funds for disabled veterans. Poppy lapel flowers can be obtained from your local Veterans of Foreign Wars, (VFW) chapter. Here are my girls after the ceremony. We had to be out of the house at 8:30 to make the program. That is early for a homeschooling family!!