“They tell their story and we try to give them a lot of opportunity to do so and then they take questions. Some of them will bring items with them from the battle fields
and when they served and that is always a huge hit with the students obviously. We welcome the spouses as well and we do a tribute to the spouses. They understand that there is a time that you have to stand for what something that you believe and you have hundreds of these veterans with these principles and just to have them around our students is a tremendous asset,” said Guthrie.

Students in grades K-12 will participate in the program. The school’s choir will also sing the anthems for each service of the military to honor veterans.  Dr. Aldona Wos, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, will also be speaking at Caldwell Academy’s Veterans Day celebration.

“Every veteran is an open history book and it is crucial for the students to learn history from fact, not from someone’s view but facts of history because if you know history you can interpret current events correctly and therefore make proper decisions for the future,” said Wos.

Wos’s family survived the Flossenburg Concentration Camp and her father was a member of the Polish Home Army during World War II. She said she plans to thank the veterans for their service.

“You do everything that you can to try to educate our younger population to understand why freedom is so important. My father and my grandfather were liberated from Flossenburg Concentration Camp by General Patton’s Third Army. I
would not be alive if it were not for the United States Army, so my message to the veterans is Thank You. I’m living proof of your efforts,” said Wos.

The event will be broadcast live on the school’s website so that home-bound veterans, their families and the public can participate in the event http://caldwellacademy.independentbroadcast.com/ .

The Veterans Day program at Caldwell Academy begins at 8:30 a.m. on Friday.