Military Appreciation Day Salutes Sacrifices
A tradition started at he Porter and Chester Institute on Saturday.
Saturday, five soldiers visited Westborough and noted their rank, their community and their deployments. "Thank you for everything that you do for us," Porter and Chester Institute Westborough Director of Education Glenn Hartland told them. "You are the men and women that help to keep us free." The institute's first Military Appreciation Day should be a time to "think about the sacrifices that our men and women are making, especially in this state," said Earl Bonett, Massachusetts vice chaiman of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. In Massachusetts, there are 44,000 people in the National Guard and Reserve, "and they're all ready to make that ultimate sacrifice which many of you in your daily lives are not expected to do. They …
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