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FWCD Celebrates Veterans
November 10 was a day of remembrance. All three divisions celebrated Veterans Day in different ways. Lower School hosted FWCD parent and Air Force Veteran Elijah Supper; Middle School seventh graders hosted the annual Veterans Day program, which featured Air Force Veteran Cavan Craddock (father of Everett Craddock ’28 and husband of Middle School Humanities Teacher Dr. Tammy Craddock) as the keynote speaker. Upper School experienced the powerful Missing Man Table ceremony (pictured top).
Stadium Flag Pole Dedicated to Veterans
Head of School Eric Lombardi dedicated a new flagpole on campus to special veterans at November’s Middle School Veterans Day program. An anonymous donor gifted the flagpole, by the scoreboard on Howard Family Field in Rosacker Stadium, and dedicated it to U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Bill Arnold ’86 and fellow FWCD veterans. Arnold, who worked at FWCD for 28 years (1994-2022), served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1990-94 and was a Marine Reserve from 1994-2006 (active duty in Iraq in 2004). He is now the Founder and Director of Blue Diamond Recreation, a nonprofit organization committed to providing restorative recreation activities for veterans and families challenged by the effects of the war.
