Today Veteran’s Day took on a new meaning for me. I came to realize the widespread support of our veteran’s and the importance of awareness in the success of our project. There are many groups out there ready and willing to help, we just have to find them. Dorian set up a table at MOSH (Jacksonville’s excellent Museum of Science and History) where she talked to many people who were downtown for the parade and other Veteran’s Day festivities. She made a lot of contacts and gathered 119 messages. We always bring a supply of empty bottles to these events, and everyone is eager to write their 5 words. Dorian also had a great idea to record many of the people saying, “here’s my bottle” as they handed her their completed messages in a bottle. We are putting all of these together into a new video. We will be contacting the interested people right away to start moving the word out into the community. It may take a while for us to gain some momentum but I can feel it building.