17,767 veterans call Sussex County home. This week belongs to them.
Veterans Day is Wednesday. About half of Sussex County's veterans served in the Vietnam era. Here's how to thank them this week, and where they can turn for help.
This is Veterans Week in Sussex County, and The Sussex Ledger is running two editions built around the men and women who served. This is Part 1. Part 2, a special edition, arrives Tuesday, the day before Veterans Day.
Sussex County is home to 17,767 veterans, according to the Census Bureau's latest five-year count. An earlier Census count, compiled by Stacker, put veterans at 8.8% of Sussex residents, second among Delaware's three counties to Kent, at 11.6%. That same count shows how Sussex veterans served:
The five periods shown cover about 15,000 of the county's veterans; others served between those periods. The Vietnam generation is the largest by far, with 8,699 Sussex veterans.
They're our neighbors, our coaches, our town council members and the folks who still stand for the flag at every ballgame. If you know a veteran, this is the week to say thank you, in person if you can.
In this edition
- Veterans Day week in Sussex: where to be, and what's free
- Faces of Sussex service: ten local veterans whose service made the news
- Where Sussex veterans can get help, close to home
- The groups that show up for Sussex veterans all year
- Delaware now has a Department of Veterans Affairs
- A VA hospital is planned for Sussex County. It is still years away.
- Wreaths Across America returns to Millsboro Dec. 19
- Tell us about your veteran
Coming Tuesday
Veterans Week, Part 2 arrives Tuesday with Sussex veterans' stories in their own words, and every Veterans Day ceremony we can confirm across the county. Know a veteran whose story should be told? Tell us about them, or email [email protected].
Help is available
If you're a veteran in crisis, or worried about one, call 988 and press 1, text 838255 or chat through the Veterans Crisis Line. It's free, confidential and open 24/7.
Tell us about your veteran
Our Veterans Day special edition comes out Tuesday, and we want it full of Sussex County veterans. Tell us about your veteran, or your town's veterans: a parent, grandparent, neighbor, coach or friend.
Send us:
- Their name, branch and when they served
- Their town in Sussex County
- A few sentences about them, in your words
- A photo, if you have one and they're OK with us running it
Send it with our Tell us form by Monday, Nov. 9, at 5 p.m., or email it to [email protected] with "My veteran" in the subject line. It's free, and every veteran we can confirm gets a place in the edition.
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