One Guilderland resident proposed an award for a student essay on democracy. Another resident questioned the school’s policy on daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. And a middle-school French teacher spoke about teaching liberty and justice in her classroom.
“It all started with a single diploma,” Tom Mullins said of his volunteer work, “and now we’re into presenting awards and telling the stories of these guys because these guys and even women rarely talked about their service, what they did, where they were ….
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