A heart warming story, if it were true.....Samuel Braunstein was contacted by the SFA, I contacted the news paper editor, so this is what they did....... check the dates of the story....
Samuel L. Braunstein never served as a CPT in the US Army Special Forces.
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Trumbull girl marches into spotlight
By Susan Silvers
STAFF WRITER
Updated:
04/29/2009 07:11:40 PM EDT
But this year, Kate gets to be right up front.
As winner of the Trumbull Memorial Day Parade Theme Contest, she gets to march right alongside grand marshal Samuel Braunstein, a lawyer and local resident who was a captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces, otherwise known as the Green Berets.
Kate's winning submission was "The Lives of Our Heroes: We Shall Never Forget." That theme will play out when the procession begins at 2 p.m. May 25 from Long Hill Green and concludes with a memorial service at the Town Hall green.
The annual parade is a town tradition. By including the Trumbull High School Band, it shares something with President Obama's inaugural parade, but is a lot more homespun, featuring not just scouts but school groups and civic organizations.
First Selectman Raymond G. Baldwin Jr. said the parade committee chose Kate's theme from among about 40 suggested by local elementary school students.
"It's only the second year we've asked kids to develop the theme," he said.
Kate said she didn't even know about the contest until her math teacher at Frenchtown School mentioned it last month. "She told us what memorializing means -- like remembering," the youngster said. The teacher had to go to a meeting, and told the students they could work on ideas.
"Everybody was writing down, 'Our veterans will always be remembered,' " Kate said. "I decided to do the opposite of that," she said of the way she turned around their thoughts.
She sees Memorial Day as being about more than those who have served in the military. "I wanted to think of every type of person who helped us," she said, mentioning doctors, firefighters and police.
"I think that it should be about all the people who help us -- who have died for the rights of our country and people who are still fighting out there for the rights of our country," she said.
http://www.connpost.com/ci_12245327
Trumbull girl marches into spotlight
By Susan Silvers
STAFF WRITER
Updated:
04/30/2009 12:09:04 AM EDT
TRUMBULL -- Although 9-year-old Katelynn Romanchick has never served in the armed forces, she is still a veteran of sorts. After all, she has marched with fellow Brownies in the town's Memorial Day parade for several years now.
This year, Kate gets to be right up front.
As winner of the Trumbull Memorial Day Parade Theme Contest, she gets to march right alongside grand marshal Samuel Braunstein, a lawyer and local resident who was a captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces.Kate's winning submission was "The Lives of Our Heroes: We Shall Never Forget." That theme will play out when the procession begins at 2 p.m. May 25 from Long Hill Green and concludes with a memorial service at the Town Hall green.
The annual parade is a town tradition. By including the Trumbull High School Band, it shares something with President Obama's inaugural parade, but is a lot more homespun, featuring not just scouts but school groups and civic organizations.
First Selectman Raymond G. Baldwin Jr. said the parade committee chose Kate's theme from among about 40 suggested by local elementary school students.
"It's only the second year we've asked kids to develop the theme," he said.
Kate said she didn't know about the contest until her teacher at Frenchtown School mentioned it last month. "She told us what memorializing means -- like remembering," the youngster said. The teacher had to go to a meeting, and told the students they could work on ideas.
"Everybody was writing down, 'Our veterans will always be remembered,' " Kate said. "I decided to do the opposite of that," she said of the way she turned around their thoughts.
She sees Memorial Day as being about more than those who have served in the military. "I wanted to think of every type of person who helped us," she said, mentioning doctors, firefighters and police.
"I think that it should be about all the people who help us -- who have died for the rights of our country and people who are still fighting out there for the rights of our country," she said.
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