Yale community shares words of gratitude for veterans
We asked members of the Yale community to share words of gratitude in honor of Veterans Day.
Name | Department | Words of gratitude |
Laura J Miller | IM - Cardiology | For all that you have endured, thank you so much for fighting for our freedom and being our heroes!! |
Susan Beach | Chemistry | My sincere thank you for your service! |
Carol Lyons | Emerging Infections Program: School of Public Health | Thank you Dad for your service. |
Maura Turner | East Asian Languages and Literatures | I am very grateful for what our veterans have done for our country. |
Patti Cavaliere | General Internal Medicine | Sadly, it wasn’t until I watched recent PBS VietNam documentary that I realized just how much we owe to our veterans.Thank you. |
Maria Rao | Applied Physics | I wish a Happy Veterans day to my husband, Ralph Rao, retired Command Master Chief in the Navy after 32 years in service! |
Tom Krattenmaker | Yale Divinity School | Thank you for serving your country! |
Jacqueline Gaetano | Custodial Services Facilities, OPS | To all who served our country, thank you so much for your dedication, sacrifice, and love for our USA. Prayers of love to you. |
Kathleen Rizzo | Account Assistant Yale Medical Group | I am deeply indebted to all of our soldiers for the sacrifices they make so that I may live freely in this beautiful country. |
Jennifer Atchley | Center for Teaching & Learning | Thank you for your service! |
Tanisha Hill | G.I and Bariatric Surgery | Thanks for serving and may God continue to bless you. |
John Poitras | Yale Printing and Publishing | My thanks to the brave men and women who protect our country and all the freedoms it affords us. |
Marianne Lyden | European Studies | Thank you. You’re not just “doing your job” you’re living your values and working for the rest of us. I pray you stay safe. |
Barbara Johnson | Yale Cancer Center | Thank you all for your service. Without your sacrifices, we would not have the opportunitiues that we have today. |
Lauren Langford | Office of Development | Our country and our community would not be the incredible places they are without your myriad gifts. Thank you for all you do! |
Carol McGrath | Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) | Your bravery, sacrifice, and resolve is forever appreciated. |
Luis Serrano | Yale School Of Drama Digital Technology | From one Veteran to another, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! |
Jessica Newkirk | YSM-Neurology | To my father, Donell Newkirk Sr., who is a U.S. Marine, and to all others who have served. Thank you for your service! |
Kimberly Barrow | Yale School of Management Finance & Administration | You are never forgotten! Thank you for your courage, service, and resilience. Thank you for all that you do to keep us safe! |
Ann Minton | Anthropology | I am truly touched by your dedication to our country. There is nothing else quite like it. I salute you for your service. |
Jack Beecher | Office of the Provost | Thanks to all who provide service to our veterans who now need support—THANK YOU! |
Mindy and Dwight Smith | Undergraduate, Law School, International Relations | Remembering Fletcher Wood 07, WWII with the Army Corps of Engineers on Corregidor, died as a POW of Japan |
Jonathan Green | Yale-China Association | I’ll be thinking of my uncle, William Herschell Green, a Marine who was killed in Quang Nam Province, Vietman, on June 8, 1969. |
Joy Grabow | Department of Emergency Medicine - Yale Center for Medical Simulation | Thank you for keeping America safe. You are all true heroes! |
Barbara Withington | Registrar’s Office | Thank You For Your Service. |
Risa Sodi | Yale College Dean’s Office | I’m grateful for the many ways the veterans in the Eli Whitney Students Program enrich undergraduate life at Yale. |
Cynthia Bergman | Yale Medicine - Ambulatory Operations | Thank you for being brave in the face of uncertainty. America’s Armed Services— the best of the best! |
Tanya Colon | Child Study Center | Your actions and committment to your country do not go unnoticed! |
Erin MacDonnell | Child Study Center | Thank you so very much for your sacrifice to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. I admire you greatly. |
Lisa Kimmel | Being Well at Yale | We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Thank you for your bravery and service. |
Kimberly Miniter | Human Research Protection Program | Thank you to all the Veterans for their sacrifice and service; without them, our freedom would not be possible. God bless! |
Olga Rivera | OCR | THANK YOU FOR SERVING & PROTECTING OUR COUNTRY. |
Theresa Pierson | Business Operations: FAS | THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!! |
Marietta | ITS | Your service is so appreciated! Simple words cannot express enough to thank you for our freedom! |
Marybeth Bean | The Center for Science & Social Science Information | Because of your sacrifices, we sleep well. Thank you for all that you’ve given for our peace and prosperity. |
Harley J Pretty | Information Technology Services | Thank you to all our veterans for their selfless commitment to country and military service. We do us proud! |
Paul Tinker | Hospitality | You are the best of us all; thank you all for everything we have; god bless you and yours. |
Lauren Gonzalez | Sociology | Thank you for your service! |
Diane Napert | Library | I am grateful for your service. |
Albert A. L. Hockaday, Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force, Retired | Yale University - ‘65STM, ‘64MDIV | Thank you, my fellow veterans for your service! You counted not your lives dear unto yourselves! |
Joey Clingerman | School of Public Health | THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE TO SERVE THIS COUNTRY FOR THE PROTECTION OF OUR COUNTRY AND TO DEFEAT THE TYRANNIES OF EVIL |
Paul V. Applegarth | Yale 1968 | Thanks to all of you who served. |
Susan Hacking | Graduate School | Thanks for your service and sacrifice. |