The Level of Excellence Award(LOE) has been received by our Chapter for at least the last 6 years excluding the Covid period. This is the 2nd year in a row for the 5-Star Award for our Chapter’s Newsletter and Website.

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What a very successful November for our High Country Chapter

We placed over 650 Flags on Veterans grave site at Mount Lawn Cemetery with 34 volunteers on Saturday 8 Nov 2025

We conducted our 19th Annual Veterans’ Day event at Boone Mall on Tuesday, 11 Nov 2025. Although our attendance was down a bit due to weather, our guests had the opportunity to remember and honor all our veterans with a inspiring invocation from Chaplain Jim Fisher and appropriate Veterans’ Day remarks from LTC Zack Jones, Professor of Military Science, AppState ROTC.

And finally, 17 volunteers retrieved our flags from MLC. on 15 Nov. We will inspect and store flags for Memorial Day 2026. Hope to see everyone again.

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To All Our Veterans:

What Veterans Day means

By Jim Fisher Captain, CHC, USN (Ret.)
Nov. 11, 2022

It is important that we as a culture recognize the need, and significance, of common memories within the context of our community. Cultural amnesia can be a dangerous phenomena facing the variety of close-knit villages and towns which compose the High Country. Veterans Day is an occasion that corrects cultural amnesia, and reminds us again of what we ask of our young men and women who sacrifice for our nation — in the past, as well as in our present.

Sacrifice is a bedrock of military service. During Memorial Day in May, we honor the memories of those men and women who offered the ultimate sacrifice of their lives, dying on behalf of the nation. On Veterans Day in November, our community remembers our living military veterans who answered the call of our nation, acknowledging that some served voluntarily while others were drafted. In both circumstances, sacrifices were made which impacted their lives, the lives of their family members, and changed the course of their future. Some continue to carry the reminder of war on their bodies. Others may carry the cost of war in their heart and soul as they suffer from Post Traumatic Stress or Moral Injury Condition.

Because of their service and sacrifice, it is important as a nation to maintain a cultural memory of our living veterans, not just for one day, but throughout the year. The High Country, and our culture, needs to remember because in the reinforcement of the memories, we solidify the common values that bind us together as one community. In particular, the value of honor with which we esteem our military veterans, and the value of appreciation for the sacrifices they made on our behalf.

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