Luke Krippel Director of Special Populations | Coal City Community Unit School District 1
Luke Krippel Director of Special Populations | Coal City Community Unit School District 1
Veterans organization gives back to school, community
It was 100 years ago today—March 21—that the charter was issued establishing St. Juvin Post 1336 Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Established by veterans of World War I and a single soldier of the Spanish- American War, the group took the name of a small village in northeastern France where United States Infantry Divisions engaged with the German Army over a period of 10 days in October 1918. The fight was intense in this area and resulted in many casualties. The Post name was chosen to honor those who gave their lives.
Throughout the Coal City area, St. Juvin Post 1336 is known as an organization that works for the betterment of veterans and the community.
The Coal City Community Unit 1 School District is grateful for the role St. Juvin Post 1336 plays within our schools. Its youth education programs foster patriotism and citizenship at all age levels, and in sharing their personal military experiences they provide an enhanced level of learning and understanding of our nation’s history.
Not only do members of Post 1336 address our high school students on their Vietnam experiences, they conduct flag etiquette programs that reach our fourth and fifth graders, and our middle school students are provided an opportunity to participate in the national VFW sponsored Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest. The veterans organization has provided American and POW flags to our school buildings, commissioned custom wood medallions representing the six branches of the military to be hung in our schools, provided funding to enhance the Hall of Heroes at Coal City High School, and annually provides scholarships to graduating Coalers.
As a school district we are honored to support the community’s military history as the host site for the Community Veterans Monument. Located on the campus of Coal City Intermediate School, the monument contains the names of more than fromthecommunitywhoservedinthemilitarydatingbacktotheSpanish- AmericanWar.Notonlydoesthemonumentserveasasymbolofprideinthecommunity,butasanotherexampletoourchildrenoftheimportanceofpatriotism,citizenship,andhonoringtheserviceandsacrificeofournation’sveterans.
As St. Juvin Post 1336 observes its Anniversary, our school district offers itscongratulationsandextendsitsgratitudetothemembers—pastandpresent—fortheircommitmenttoourcountrycommunityandschooldistrict.
Happy Anniversary StJuvinPostVeteransofForeignWars
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