{"id":11166,"date":"2018-11-11T20:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2018-11-11T21:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T02:28:59","slug":"our-heroes-a-tribute-to-our-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=11166","title":{"rendered":"Our Heroes: A Tribute to Our Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Today is a day when we say thank you to our veterans for their service. On Friday, schools held assemblies to honor our veterans and active duty military personnel and to learn more about what they do for our country.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>We asked students at the Patrick Henry School Veterans Day assembly to describe a military hero.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>A military hero is someone who protects us and makes our country feel safe and secure. Someone who is very brave. They are kind and compassionate. In order to put your life before many others is very brave. To risk your life for the sake of your country or your beliefs is very brave. They are good people. They are very good people. Thank you for your service. Thank you so much!\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Maya Huddle, seventh grade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11186 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maya-Huddle-a-seventh-grade-PH.jpg\" alt=\"Maya Huddle\" width=\"551\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maya-Huddle-a-seventh-grade-PH.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maya-Huddle-a-seventh-grade-PH-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maya-Huddle-a-seventh-grade-PH-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maya-Huddle-a-seventh-grade-PH-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maya-Huddle-a-seventh-grade-PH-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A military hero is someone who is a great leader, who makes sacrifices for the greater good. They are people who know what\u2019s right and do what\u2019s right, even if they know it could get them in trouble, or hurt or could damage them in some way,\u201d \u2014 Zion Foulcard, sixth grade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zion-Foulcard-6th-grade-PH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zion-Foulcard-6th-grade-PH.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zion-Foulcard-6th-grade-PH-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zion-Foulcard-6th-grade-PH-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zion-Foulcard-6th-grade-PH-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zion-Foulcard-6th-grade-PH-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Military heroes give their lives for other people, without thinking of theirs first. No matter if they have power or anything. They only need the heart to help others because they are thinking more of other people. They think of something that is bigger than they are already. I would say that they are brave, respectful and they are kind,\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Justin Guzman Rodriguez, sixth grade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justin-Guzman-Rodriguez-6th-grade-PH-e1541797581297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My dad is a hero because he helps other people. He\u2019s not selfish and he doesn\u2019t just work for himself, he works for other people. I\u2019m proud that my dad works in the military. He\u2019s been in the army for 22 years,\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Brayden Balthaser, fifth grade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brayden-Balthaser-5th-grade-PH-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brayden-Balthaser-5th-grade-PH-cropped.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brayden-Balthaser-5th-grade-PH-cropped-133x100.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brayden-Balthaser-5th-grade-PH-cropped-260x195.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Enjoy these highlights from school assemblies:<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACPSk12\/timelines\/1060976859700252672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Veterans Day 2018 &#8211; Curated tweets by ACPSk12<\/a> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Veterans Day, we asked students at the Patrick Henry School Veterans Day assembly to describe a military hero. Read what they had to say and enjoy highlights from last Friday&#8217;s assemblies in our schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-patrick-henry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 04:44:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11220,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions\/11220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}