My Hometown Veterans Spreading love to Veterans on Valentine’s Day

By Briana Litolff Lynch

Chili American Legion Post #1830 Family

Who doesn’t like to make Valentines?

For the last three years we have made “Valentines for Veterans” an annual project in my household. In collaboration with the Chili American Legion Post #1830 ALA members, junior members, A Time to Grow Preschool, family and friends we handmade 240 Valentines to be distributed locally to Veterans. My mentor, Pamela Moore, initiated this project to me three years ago and we thrive to continue, and make it bigger and better every year. I am very proud of this project and blessed to pass it onto my daughter Grace and my nieces & nephews. The community involvement is humbling.

I think the most important part of “Valentines for Veterans” is teaching the younger generations about why we are doing this. We are finding ways to express our gratitude for those who fought for our country. It is the little things that can be a big thing to them. We wrote on the Valentines sayings like “Brave soldier,” “To my Hero,” and “Thank you for your service.”

This year A Time to Grow Preschool in Chili helped us in having every child make a Valentine and talking with them about why we Making seniors at Otto Commons Greece, Please ing helped in project especially Legion #1830 for all their hard work in making this Valentine’s Day special for our Veterans.