Wesleyan has long been a campus on which veterans have enrolled as students and worked as faculty and staff. In the last two years, we have had the privilege of working with the Posse Foundation to bring cohorts of 10 undergraduate veterans to Wes each year. (Read more in recent stories in The Hartford Courant and The Christian Science Monitor). We our proud to count them as students.
Recently a group of Wesleyans joined with others in a visit to the Veterans Home in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
Among those they visited was a 101 year old veteran of the Tuskegee Airmen!
On this Veterans Day, I ask that we pause and remember the men and women who have served our nation in uniform. They are family members, neighbors, friends, faculty, staff, alumni, and students. They deserve our acknowledgment and our gratitude.