{"id":19981,"date":"2023-07-25T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=19981"},"modified":"2023-07-26T06:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:41:46","slug":"2023-veterans-day-poster-contest-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=19981","title":{"rendered":"2023 Veterans Day poster contest winner is\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the 2023 Veterans Day Poster Contest<\/a>, the Veterans Day National Committee (VDNC) called on professional and amateur artists to create picture-perfect designs that reflect the theme of this year\u2019s Veterans Day observance: service. <\/p>\n

There were more than 60 entries from people ranging from school-aged children to graphic designers with decades of experience. When all ballots were tallied, the VDNC selected \u201cThe Bugler\u201d by Gene Russell, a service-connected disabled Army Infantry Veteran and VA employee, as this year\u2019s winning submission.<\/p>\n

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Russell\u00a0is the principal photographer for the VA Secretary in Washington, D.C., and he spends his days photographing the Secretary\u2019s significant events and documenting other senior VA leaders\u2019 internal and external engagements. Described as \u201ccustomer-service obsessed\u201d by acting Deputy Secretary Scott Blackburn, Russell received the VA Secretary\u2019s Honor Award for \u201cI CARE\u201d in 2020 for his work on the Center for Women Veterans\u2019 \u201cI Am Not Invisible\u201d (IANI) campaign. The I CARE Award is VA\u2019s highest honor\u00a0for customer service and workplace excellence, and refers to VA\u2019s five core values<\/a>: Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect and Excellence.<\/p>\n

Music was the inspiration for Russell\u2019s submission; he has played the bugle since he was a boy. \u201cBugle calls are not songs, and they do not have lyrics. Yet, when heard, the calls evoke the emotion and the pride of service for members of every uniformed branch listed on this poster,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

More than 100 bugle calls are used in the United States Armed Services, including a few used only in emergencies, such as \u201cman overboard\u201d or \u201cabandon ship.\u201d For that reason, the bugler connects each service member on land, air and sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal was to link the sight, sound and feeling of how we served our country. The pole and American flag in this image are the ones currently flying over VA headquarters in Washington, DC,\u201d he said. \u201cIt flies for each of us and those Veterans to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Veterans Day poster will be displayed in VA facilities, military installations and municipal buildings across America. It will also serve as the cover of the official program for the Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery on November 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the 2023 Veterans Day Poster Contest, the Veterans Day National Committee (VDNC) called on professional and amateur artists to create picture-perfect designs that reflect the theme of this year\u2019s Veterans Day observance: service. There were more than 60 entries from people ranging from school-aged children to graphic designers with decades of experience. When all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,37,75,567,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vetresources","category-top-stories","category-veterans-day","category-veterans-day-poster","category-vets-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19990,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19981\/revisions\/19990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}