https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWxwgL9_IdQ

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/what_works_syracuse_university_bootcamp_helps_hundreds_of_veterans_launch_busine.html

Thank you to all veterans for your service!

Kim Bracey

I want to thank the Travis Manion Foundation - Ryan Manion and Colonel Tom Manion for all their amazing work all year and especially all their service at Veterans Day

~Kay Magee

Matt Peeples

hiding inside the black granite.

I said I wouldn’t,

dammit: No tears.

I’m stone. I’m flesh.

My clouded reflection eyes me

like a bird of prey, the profile of night

slanted against morning. I turn

this way--the stone lets me go.

I turn that way--I’m inside

the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

again, depending on the light

to make a difference.

I go down the 58,022 names,

half-expecting to find

my own in letters like smoke.

I touch the name Andrew Johnson;

I see the booby trap’s white flash.

Names shimmer on a woman’s blouse

but when she walks away

the names stay on the wall.

Brushstrokes flash, a red bird’s

wings cutting across my stare.

The sky. A plane in the sky.

A white vet’s image floats

closer to me, then his pale eyes

look through mine. I’m a window.

He’s lost his right arm

inside the stone. In the black mirror

a woman’s trying to erase names:

No, she’s brushing a boy’s hair.

. I salute ALL those who serve!

Marta Lunden

- Áine Lorié-

-Emily Hartsfield

-Nikki Williams