<div dir="ltr"><p>Colleagues: Veterans Day is observed on November 11th to honor all those who have served in the armed forces of the United States. Among these are many educators who have performed their military service by teaching undereducated military recruits how to improve their literacy skills to better perform their jobs and to communicate with loved ones back home.</p><p>To celebrate these many military literacy teachers and their military adult learners I am offering a free drawing in which I will send each of three winners of the drawing one of three sets of original materials written by adult educators ranging from those used in World War II and others used in later wars (Korea; Vietnam) and peacetime.</p><p>1. First Winner drawn from the bowl into which I will place the names of those entering the random drawing will receive a copy of Samuel Goldberg's 302 page classic book entitled "Army Training of Illiterates in World War II" reporting on the World War II literacy programs that taught reading and language arts to thousands of recruits; and with this book will come the well illustrated World War II  War Department Pamphlet 21-13 dated 10 August 1944 entitled "Army Life" used to orient new literate recruits about their activities  in the U. S. Army.</p><p>2. Second Winner will receive a 1956 copy of "Men in the Armed Forces: A Serviceman's Reader" with its highly illustrated drawings of the fictional Private Pete entering and serving in the U.S. Army and includes stories of Navy and Air Force personnel; and a 1979 copy of "Improving Your Navy Reading Skills" used in the Navy's Academic Remedial Training programs.</p><p>3. Third Winner will receive the two volume set of the 1966 Books 1 and 2 about "Navy Life: Reading and Writing for Success in the Navy";   and a 1979 copy of "Improving Your Navy Reading Skills" used in the Navy's Academic Remedial Training programs.</p><p>If you are interested in joining in this drawing for military adult literacy education materials from World War II, the Vietnam war era, and in the non-draft, volunteer military  of the 1970s just send me an email <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:16px">saying “enter me in the drawing” and include your snail mail address so in case you win I can mail the materials to you. </span> I will send winners of the drawing their prizes free of charge via the U.S. postal service to the address the winners provide for me. You can share this drawing call with others you think would like to enter.</p><p>To further celebrate the many military literacy teacher veterans  and their adult learner veterans I have compiled a number of brief research notes that I have written over the years into one report entitled, “FIGHTING ILLITERACY IN TIMES OF WAR: An anthology of brief historical notes”. These notes discuss the work of such notable literacy teachers of military students as Captain Garry and Caroline Clark during the World War I era, who later went on to found the great magazine to help children learn to read called Highlights for Children! Another note talks about the World War II work of the famous musician and actor, Desi Arnaz, of I Love Lucy fame, in teaching U.S. Army personnel to read.</p><p>Ranging from the Revolutionary War through World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq wars, the FIGHTING ILLITERACY IN TIMES OF WAR report discusses how the armed forces taught literacy skills, study skills (the famous SQ3R strategy), and founded the General Educational Development (GED) certificate for personnel who had not completed their high school degrees during World War II and which thousands of civilian adult learners now complete each year in the United States and Canada.  </p><p>Now, when I celebrate Veteran's Day, I have a special place in my thoughts for the hundreds of thousands of undereducated, less literate veterans who have served our nation honorably. I also think of the thousands of veteran adult literacy educators who, through their dedication to fighting illiteracy, have helped thousands of these military personnel succeed. I have visited the National World War II museum in New Orleans, the Korean and Vietnam War memorials in Washington DC, but I have found no stone monuments to these veterans of literacy education, teachers and learners alike.  But I know that our nation's struggle for freedom has relied upon books as well as on bullets and bombs!</p><p> The report on Fighting Illiteracy in Times of War is available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320024840_FIGHTING_ILLITERACY_IN_TIMES_OF_WAR_An_anthology_of_brief_historical_notes_by_Tom_Sticht" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(26,115,232)">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320024840_FIGHTING_ILLITERACY_IN_TIMES_OF_WAR_An_anthology_of_brief_historical_notes_by_Tom_Sticht</a></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tom Sticht</span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PS: Like this drawing, my first three drawings each made three awards and the winners of these awards were:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">Heidi R. Bacon, Assistant Professor of Language, Literacies, and Culture, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois  University, Carbondale, Illinois.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">Belinda Biscoe, Senior Associate Vice President for University Outreach, University of Oklahoma and Member of the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">Dena Giacometti, Program Director, Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">Daphne Greenberg, Distinguished University Professor and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in"> Director of the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">Carol Rachfalski, Adult High School teacher, Cherry Hill, New Jersey<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"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