{"id":1316603,"date":"2019-11-11T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T00:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=990733"},"modified":"2019-11-11T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T00:51:32","slug":"glenwood-springs-high-school-inspires-students-while-honoring-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/glenwood-springs-high-school-inspires-students-while-honoring-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood Springs High School inspires students while honoring veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"5.8657407407407\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-990733-915\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/vetsday-gpi-111219-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/vetsday-gpi-111219-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent | A member of the Glenwood Springs High School Airforce Junior ROTC stands during a presentation at the Veterans Day Assembly at the school on Monday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.4285714285714\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7.6190476190476\">\n<p><strong>A member of the Glenwood Springs High School Airforce Junior ROTC stands during a presentation at the Veterans Day Assembly at the school on Monday.<\/strong><br \/>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/postindependent.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+PostIndependent.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/glenwood-springs-high-school-inspires-students-while-honoring-veterans\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/vetsday-gpi-111219-1-1024x683.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/vetsday-gpi-111219-1-1024x683.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/11\/vetsday-gpi-111219-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"A member of the Glenwood Springs High School Airforce Junior ROTC stands during a presentation at the Veterans Day Assembly at the school on Monday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/glenwood-springs-high-school-inspires-students-while-honoring-veterans\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/glenwood-springs-high-school-inspires-students-while-honoring-veterans\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Steve Beattie brought three visual aids to Glenwood Springs High School\u2019s Veterans Day assembly Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Students cheered from the gymnasium\u2019s bleachers as the Class of 1964 graduate worked to get his red and white Glenwood Springs High School letterman jacket over his shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in the day, when this thing fit me, I guarantee you I had absolutely no thought of going to war,\u201d Beattie said. \u201cThat just wasn\u2019t on the radar. A small-town guy in a small town in western Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, Beattie put on the same U.S. Army jacket he wore in April 1971 when he departed a Trans World Airlines flight in San Francisco following his service in the Vietnam War.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember where I was. I remember the pride that I felt in doing what I did,\u201d Beattie said. \u201cIt makes me feel awfully good to be able to wear this jacket and to be a veteran.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The final jacket Beattie wore was plaid and from the 1970s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got to believe that any country that would allow you the freedom to make a fashion statement like this has some pretty great freedoms,\u201d Beattie joked. \u201cI got this [jacket] in the early \u201970s when I got back from Vietnam. \u2026By gosh I was back doing my life.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At Monday\u2019s assembly, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard veterans stood as the high school\u2019s choir sang a medley of U.S. Armed Forces tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Another one of those veterans, Dan LeVan, served eight years in the Air Force, six years in the Army National Guard and for the last 18 years has worked in the Roaring Fork School District.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt touches me very much so,\u201d LeVan said. \u201cI have worked hand in hand with the Junior ROTC and am so proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to honoring veterans like Beattie and LeVan, Monday\u2019s assembly also included drills from Glenwood Springs High School\u2019s Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senior Davy Stanfield Brown said her own family\u2019s long line of veterans inspired her to join the Junior ROTC program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandfather was a colonel in the Air Force and my sister was in the Marines,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI want to fly fighter jets in the Navy or the Air Force.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cadet Major Brown said that joining the Junior ROTC program motivated her to apply to both the Air Force and Naval Academies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see all of these service members, current and past, it reminds me of just how humble and brave they are,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThey put their lives on the line for our freedoms and I see it as one of the most honorable things you can do as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The high school program was one of several school-based Veterans Day events on Monday. Others included Glenwood Springs Middle School, Sopris Elementary School, Carbondale Middle School and multiple events in the Garfield Re-2 schools.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/glenwood-springs-high-school-inspires-students-while-honoring-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Glenwood Springs High School Airforce Junior ROTC stands during a presentation at the Veterans Day Assembly at the school on Monday.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Buy Photo Show CaptionsHide Captions Steve Beattie brought three visual aids to Glenwood Springs High School\u2019s Veterans Day assembly Monday.&nbsp; Students cheered from the gymnasium\u2019s bleachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 13:43:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}