Veterans Day 2008

Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 11, the library will be closed for Veteran's Day. Come to Central Park at 3:30 p.m. for a ceremony honoring veterans at the beautiful Santa Clara Veterans Memorial, 909 Kiely Blvd. Parking for handicapped folks and wheelchair assistance will be available in the employee parking lot close to the Community Recreation Center.

For more information about the ceremony, or how to have a brick installed at this lovely memorial to honor a veteran, contact James Lee at (408) 296-2512.


Learn more about Veterans Day at this website. The library has many memoirs of veterans' experiences. Try these:

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq by Kirsten Holmstedt

Ice Crusades: a memoir of cold war and cold sport by Tom Wolf

American Warrior: a combat memoir of Vietnam by John C. "Doc" Bahnsen, Jr.

or this children's book:

World War II by Virginia Schomp (a collection of letters written by WWII veterans)

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