Sunday, November 11, 2012
Fairfax County government closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day. County schools are open.
Some Fairfax County offices and services will be closed on Monday in observance of Veterans Day. Here's the lowdown: Fairfax County Government is closed. Fairfax County Public Schools are open. Fairfax County courts will be closed. Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood and Community Services (NCS) programs, activities and facilities, including Fastran services, will be closed. Fairfax County Public Libraries are closed Sunday and Monday. Libraries will re-open Tuesday. RECenters will be open on a regular schedule on Monday. Community centers will be closed. Nature and historic centers — Colvin Run/Sully Historic Sites, Hidden Oaks/Hidden Pond, Riverbend Visitor Center are closed on Monday. Huntley Meadows Park Nature Center: Open noon …
Darlene and Virgil Spurlock read more than 200 names from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Editor's Note: Article submitted by reader Diane Nees. Early this past summer, Darlene Spurlock, the Director of Wesley Preschool and Kindergarten, applied to be a name reader at the 30th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. She was so excited when she got her acceptance letter along with the 30 names she would be reading. The amazing thing about this story is that Darlene personally knew one person whose name appears on the Wall - and that person's name appeared in the list of names she was to read! The organizers of this special Veteran's Day event had no knowledge of this friendship. After practicing reading these names for several months (even calling a family in Indiana to verify the pronunciation of one of these last …
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Local residents will commemorate Veterans Day.
On Sunday, Veterans Day, Americans will honor military veterans with ceremonies and tributes. Nov. 11 (the legal public holiday for Veterans Day), falls on a Sunday. For most federal employees, Monday, Nov. 12, will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes. Veterans Day has its roots in Armistice Day, which was proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Seven years later, President Calvin Coolidge issued another proclamation to commemorate Armistice Day with ceremonies. Armistice Day was officially changed in 1956 to Veterans Day. You can read President Obama's 2012 proclamation observing Veterans Day here. The following events will take place across Northern Virginia in observance of Veterans Day: Arlington Memorial …
Take a Veteran to School Day connected students with military veterans.
Raucous cheers of "U.S.A!" could be heard at Fort Belvoir Elementary School as hundreds of students greeted visiting veterans Friday morning. Take a Veteran to School Day connects veterans with students in a special celebration of veterans. The program is a joint public outreach effort with History Channel, Cox Communications, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Rear Admiral Richard A. Buchanan of the U.S. Navy (Ret.) joined veterans in telling their stories to students. Ninety-eight percent of students attending Fort Belvoir Elementary School have parents who are serving in the military. Bonnie Rice of Alexandria is a World War II veteran who participated in Take a Veteran to School Day. She served with the WAVES as a 2nd Class …
Friday, November 11, 2011
The president placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns and offered remarks at Arlington National Cemetery's Memorial Amphitheater on Friday.
President Barack Obama, in his remarks Friday at Arlington National Cemetery’s Memorial Amphitheater, compared today’s servicemen and women to the Greatest Generation that faced the hardships of World War II. Obama also noted the upcoming holidays would serve as a season of homecomings following the end of the war in Iraq and the anticipated withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan. Over the next five years, 1 million troops will return to civilian life. “This generation of service members – this 9/11 Generation – has borne the burden of our security during a hard decade of sacrifice. Our servicemen and women make up less than 1 percent of Americans, but also more than 1 million military spouses and 2 million children and millions more…
