It’s beginning to look alot like Christmas…..

The Christmas Tree is up and we are anticipating a wonderful Christmas season here at Copperfield Hill.  The month of December will be filled with celebrations, visiting carolers, outings and much more.  As we round the corner to the final stretch of 2018, we wish you a healthy and happy holiday.  christmas tree

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Happy Thanksgiving from Copperfield Hill

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Thanksgiving
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1850 – 1919

We walk on starry fields of white
And do not see the daisies;
For blessings common in our sight
We rarely offer praises.
We sigh for some supreme delight
To crown our lives with splendor,
And quite ignore our daily store
Of pleasures sweet and tender.

Our cares are bold and push their way
Upon our thought and feeling.
They hand about us all the day,
Our time from pleasure stealing.
So unobtrusive many a joy
We pass by and forget it,
But worry strives to own our lives,
And conquers if we let it.

There’s not a day in all the year
But holds some hidden pleasure,
And looking back, joys oft appear
To brim the past’s wide measure.
But blessings are like friends, I hold,
Who love and labor near us.
We ought to raise our notes of praise
While living hearts can hear us.

Full many a blessing wears the guise
Of worry or of trouble;
Far-seeing is the soul, and wise,
Who knows the mask is double.
But he who has the faith and strength
To thank his God for sorrow
Has found a joy without alloy
To gladden every morrow.

We ought to make the moments notes
Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;
The hours and days a silent phrase
Of music we are living.
And so the theme should swell and grow
As weeks and months pass o’er us,
And rise sublime at this good time,
A grand Thanksgiving chorus.

 

At this time of year, we reflect on the things for which we are grateful.  We are grateful for all of our residents and their families, staff and many friends at Copperfield Hill.  Happy Thanksgiving.

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Veterans Day Celebrates 100 Years

What is Veterans Day? Veterans Day is an official United States holiday. It is a day set aside to honor and thank all veterans for their military service. This honors all who served honorably in the military in wartime or peacetime.

Veterans Day goes back 100 years, beginning with the armistice on November 11, 1918, between the Germans and the Allies during WW1. Thus, Armistice Day was born. President Woodrow Wilson commemorated November 11th as Armistice Day in 1919, the first anniversary of the end of WW1. In 1926 a resolution was passed by Congress that November 11th was to be remembered “…with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.” Until 1978 Veterans Day was observed as the fourth Monday in October. President Gerald Ford signed a bill in 1975 which pushed Veterans Day back to November 11. The change took place in 1978.

Veterans Day continues to be observed on November 11th,  regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The restoration of the observance of Veterans Day to November 11th  not only preserves the historical significance of the date, but helps focus attention on the important purpose of Veterans Day: A celebration to honor America’s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.

Veterans Day is observed across the country with many different events. Special programs and honor ceremonies, parades, wreath laying ceremonies along with many private businesses offering special value promotions for veterans and their families.

At Copperfield Hill, we take the time to honor our veterans on Veterans Day. Thank you to all who answered the call to serve and fight for their freedom and the freedom of others.

For more information about the 100th Anniversary of World War 1 please see:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/topics/world-war-i/pages/2018-anniversary

https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War_centenary

 

 

 

 

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