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Please turn up the volume-Veterans Songs playing on every page!
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"Abraham-Martin-John"
Heroes
are the people who do what has to be done
when it needs to be done - regardless of the consequences.
On May 17th, Julie & the UAW Local 95 Vets Committee,
made donations towards America's Vet Dogs.
Mark Gwathmey, wife CeCe and partner Larry (dog)
spoke before UAW Region 4 Veterans.
Mark is an Iraqi Fredom Vet with Trumatic Brain Injury.
TRUE STORY
Back in September of
2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school
teacher at Robinson
High School in Little
Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school,
with the permission of the school
superintendent, the principal
and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.
When the first period
kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.
Looking around, confused, they asked, "Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?"
She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk."
They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."
No," she said.
"Maybe it's our behavior."
She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."
And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period.
Still no desks in the
classroom. By early afternoon, television news crews had started
gathering in Ms.
Cothren's classroom to
report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her
room.
The final period of the
day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk
less classroom, Martha
Cothren said, "Throughout
the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn
the right to sit
at the desks that are
ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you."
At this point, Martha
Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven
(27) U.S. Veterans,
all in uniforms, walked
into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk . The Vets began
placing the school
desks in rows, and then
they would walk over and stand alongside the wall.
By the time the last soldier
had set the final desk in place, those kids started to understand, perhaps
for the first
time in their lives,
just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
Martha said, "You didn't
earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you.
They placed the desks here for you.
Now, it's up to you to
sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students,
to be good citizens.
They paid the price so
that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget
it."
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From the VFAC Administrator
Julie Spangler
I would first like to say THANKS to the editors Eva Hill, Laura Slayton
and the rest of the editor's staff in having me
continue with the Veterans for a Change children workbook in continuing
teaching children across America the meaning of
Veterans.I am not a Veteran but I am a proud wife, daughter, and sister,
sister in law, niece, cousin and aunt of many Veterans.
I have been very active in many Veterans organizations not only through
the state of Wisconsin, but through out our nation.
I have helped raise thousands of dollars through many Veterans' organizations
and has all been donated back to our
Veterans and troops across the United States. Every year I take time to
visit the VA Hospitals in Wisconsin and Illinois, to pay
my respects to those who have sacrificed their lives so we can sleep sound
at night and enjoy our every day FREEDOM.
THANKS to my dear friend Jeff "Doc" Dentice, (Vietnam Vet) for dedicating
his time & talents
in putting the Veterans for a Change website together for me!
Doc & Laura are Good friends & he introduced Laura to the
UAW Vets
Remember FREEDOM doesn't come free!!
Thank you and god bless our
VETERANS!!
LAURA
SLAYTON-FOUNDER OF VFAC
CHILDREN HELPING VETERANS
CLICK ON THE COVER FOR AN
WORKBOOK OVERVIEW

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Vietnam Womens Memorial
Julie will now be running "Veterans for a Change" continuing on teaching children as Laura & Eva have for many years. |
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Kids and our Veterans-This says it all!

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Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our and we are never...ever...the same.
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Kids Helping
Veterans-"Check it Out"
Our Veterans from WWII-Korea are older now and in
many Vets homes. Bringing some Joy and Happiness
to their lives is so very important to them. Thanks
to all the Kids and their parents who have taken
the time to teach them so very well.
Keep up the great work & send us your pictures
and a short story of what you did and where.
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Kids helping out with the Hospitalized Veterans barbecue at Tomah
VA Hospital in Wisconsin
Children attended the UAW Local 95 membership meeting in Janesville,
Wisconsin, & presented coloring book pictures
which were taken from the Veterans For A Change workbook,
along with candy and PROUD TO BE A VETERAN buttons to our Vets in
recognition for their service
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Abraham-Martin-John Anybody here seen my old friend
Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young. You know, I just looked around and he's gone.
Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young. You know, I just looked around and he's gone.
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me? And we'll be free Some day soon, it's gonna be one day.
Can you tell me where he's gone? I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill With |
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Gone too soon What this world has missed. To THANK-YOU for keeping our nation free. |
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Julie
Spangler-Administrator
VISIT DOC'S MILITARY-VETS SITES BELOW
WEBSITE BY JEFF DOC DENTICE