(Le Mars) — Today is Veteran’s Day, and at the Gehlen Catholic Special Prayer service for veterans, former Gehlen alum Kimberly Kuhn spoke to the gathering about how today’s military represents less than one percent of the nation’s population. Kuhn recently retired from the U-S Army as a colonel. She entered the Army following college, and has been at various locations around the world.
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Kuhn made a career with the Army with an emphasis as a Military Police and Criminal Investigation Division. She says it was a joy to work with young people who shared a similar committment to the military.
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The retired Army Colonel says in today’s world it is different than the days of World War 2, in the fact that communities are not asked to make sacrifices, as they once did.
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Kuhn says sometimes people tend to forget about the active duty military, and the fact they are deployed around the world to help maintain the peace.
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The 1985 Gehlen Alum has a concern that society, in time, may forget about the veterans, especially the disabled veterans.
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