Veterans Day is both personal and sacred, the Rt. Rev. Ann Ritonia told participants at The Episcopal Church’s first churchwide Veterans Day service on Nov. 11.
During her sermon, Ritonia, bishop suffragan for The Episcopal Church’s Armed Forces and Federal Ministries, noted that she has served in the U.S. Marine Corps and has a family filled with veterans – her grandfather was awarded the Purple Heart for fighting in France in World War I, her father and two uncles served during the Korean War, and a cousin was in Vietnam. To read more, click here
