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Veterans Day School Kit
By U.S. Veterans Adminsitration
Oct 5, 2006, 18:46

 

 

 

 

Veterans Day School Kit

If the 38 page school kit file is too large to download, select one of the individual sections. Printing all three sections will allow you to assemble a complete school kit. (The embedded page numbers apply to the complete booklet.)


Veterans Day Teachers Resource Guide
School Kit
(8.8 MB; 38 pages)


Resource Guide Teachers' Section
Teachers' Section
(2.6 MB; 11 pages)


Student Resources - Grades 4-7
Students Grades 4-7
(3.8 MB; 21 pages)


Student Resources - Grades 8-12
Students Grades 8-12
(3.3 MB; 13 pages)

 

 

2006 Veterans Day Host Organization - Military Order of the Purple Heart

2006 Veterans Day Regional Sites - Officially recognized ceremonies around the nation

Veterans Day Poster Gallery

FAQ- Please check out the Frequently Asked Questions section to find answers to the most commonly asked Veterans Day questions.

Veterans Day National Committee

National Ceremony Photo Gallery

Veterans Day History

Veterans Day National Ceremony Speakers and Speeches

2006 National Veterans Awareness Week -  U.S. Senate Resolution 507 encourages all Americans to observe the week of November 5 through November 11, 2006, as National Veterans Awareness Week with appropriate educational activities.

Disabled American Veterans 2006 Veterans Day Poster

Patriotic Fact Sheet   - Information about America's most beloved national customs, plus a list of possible school activities for Veterans Day.

VA Kids   Games,  classroom activities and information about veterans and VA for teachers and students.

White House Lessons of Liberty   - The Veterans' Experience, an Education Website.

Veterans History Project - The Library of Congress invites you to join it in collecting audio- and video-taped oral histories, along with documents such as letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and home movies, of America's war veterans and those who served in support of them during World War I, World War II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars.

Arlington National Cemetery Home Page

Burial of the Unknown Soldier - November, 1921 -- a first person account.

State and Local Directors of Veterans Affairs

2005 Presidential Veterans Day Proclamation

2005 Veterans Day Message from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs



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