Legislative

A medal is a symbol of completion. It marks the end of service. But for the Military Child, service never ends at a ceremony. It continues: at the next duty station in the next classroom during the next deployment in households where children learn to read the room before they learn to drive A medal would have suggested finality. What military children needed was continuity.

Every generation of Americans has lived with the reality of service, but few have seen it through the eyes of the child who grows up beside it.