{"id":1642,"date":"2015-11-11T22:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T03:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T20:12:18","slug":"encouragement-found-for-a-veteran-at-conner-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/encouragement-found-for-a-veteran-at-conner-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouragement Found for a Veteran at Conner Middle School"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Conner-Middle-School.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Conner-Middle-School.jpg\" alt=\"Conner Middle School\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Those who know me, know that I have deep concerns about the future of our country, given the current direction we are taking.<\/p>\n<p>Today brought a ray of hope through an unlikely source, a group of sixth and eighth graders at Conner Middle School located in Hebron Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>What I witnessed today was a thoughtful, intentional, and meaningful tribute to not only veterans but to many of the rights we are guaranteed in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.\u00a0 Rights, it seems, that have been forgotten by too many.<\/p>\n<p>Under the direction of Mr. David Stigall and aided by scores of folks I witnessed a eighth grade band, a jazz band, a strings orchestra, and a chorale group doing some of the highest quality music I have ever heard at a public school.\u00a0 The music was well selected and well executed.<\/p>\n<p>I then sat engrossed in the descriptions of how each of the five armed services came into being.\u00a0 Then was touched as students read mind and heart moving poems, driving home the idea that our veteran\u2019s have passed the torch of liberty to us.\u00a0 They sacrificed; let us not despise them by dropping that torch.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Conner Middle School for moving this 24 year Air Force veteran, sitting among dozens of other veterans.\u00a0 Your program and ovation were\u00a0deeply gratifying and encouraging.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Conner-Middle-Band.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/doctoraviation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Conner-Middle-Band.jpg\" alt=\"Conner Middle Band\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know me, know that I have deep concerns about the future of our country, given the current direction we are taking. 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