“Being a member of Daughters of the American Revolution and a Veterans Day baby, I wanted to do something special for friend Jonathan Ruelle who returned from a 6-month deployment with the Air Force in Afghanistan. We held a surprise for his two children.
We held a “Junior Patriot” award ceremony at Beebe Elementary School to honor a 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade student with a military parent but that wasn’t the REAL reason for the gathering.”