Veteran’s Day is a few weeks from now but that doesn’t mean to start planning to celebrate our nation’s vets. Central Middle School will have its annual Veteran’s Day Program on November 9. The program coordinator and nominee for North Dakota Teacher of the Year, Megan Wasness, has been organizing the commemorative day for 8 years.
She said there will be a speaker coming in from nearby Fort Grafton, a slide show of vets from families and students, and the 8th-grade students will be writing an essay on the program.
“I hope a lot of veterans and people from our community come to the program,” Wasness told the Journal. “They can stay for lunch afterward.”
A military wife herself (her husband is in the National Guard), she said the guest speaker will be Maj. Brett Nelson, a resident of Devils Lake. I think it’s great when kids see people they can recognize. He will have a great message for our kids.
Also set up will be a “missing man’s table.” This is a small table memorial set up that is used to symbolically recognize the POW and MIA soldiers. This is the first time the program will have one.
“I hope that people recognize the sacrifices of our veterans and they have sacrificed a lot and it’s getting worse with sending troops overseas,” Wasness said.
The Veteran’s Day Program will be on Thursday, November at 10 a.m. at CMS
