{"id":70409,"date":"2023-12-18T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=70409"},"modified":"2023-12-20T20:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T20:38:40","slug":"3rd-infantry-division-attends-star-of-kindness-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=70409","title":{"rendered":"3rd Infantry Division attends ‘Star of Kindness’ event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Lt. Col. David Ike, commander of the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, stands alongside U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Raul Aguilar Jr., senior enlisted advisor for HHBn, 3rd ID, as they attend the \u2018Star of Kindness\u2019 ceremony in the market square in Boles\u0142awiec, Poland, Dec. 15, 2023. The 3rd Infantry Division\u2019s mission in Europe is to engage in multinational training and exercises across the continent, working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America\u2019s forward deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Moses Howard II)
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Boles\u0142awiec, Poland – U.S. Army Soldiers from the Georgia-based 3rd Infantry Division attended the \u2018Star of Kindness\u2019 event which took place in the Boles\u0142awiec market square December 15-17. In Polish custom, the little star on the night of Christmas Eve is called \u2018Gwiazda zyczliwosci\u2019 meaning \u2018Star of Kindness.\u2019 During the event, members of the community shared greetings and well wishes as they celebrated the holidays.<\/p>\n

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\n U.S. Army Lt. Col. David Ike, commander of the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, shakes hands with Piotr Roman, mayor of Boles\u0142awiec, Poland, during the \u2018Star of Kindness\u2019 ceremony in the market square in Boles\u0142awiec, Poland, Dec. 15, 2023. The 3rd Infantry Division\u2019s mission in Europe is to engage in multinational training and exercises across the continent, working alongside NATO allies and regional security partners to provide combat-credible forces to V Corps, America\u2019s forward deployed corps in Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Moses Howard II)
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The little star is in reference to the star of David which the three wisemen witnessed while traveling towards Bethlehem. The ceremony concluded with dignitaries singing on stage and passing out wafers in baskets to local attendees. The wafers are passed around as tokens of goodwill shared in benevolence amongst individuals during the festivities for the holidays.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe \u2018Star of Kindness\u2019 represents the first star that appears in the sky on December 24th and it\u2019s a Polish tradition,\u201d said U.S. Army Capt. Richard Lee Macleod, the garrison officer in charge of Forward Operating Site Boles\u0142awiec. \u201cThey have dinner and then open presents on Christmas Eve, and it starts off the Christmas season in the square.\u201d<\/p>\n

The weekend\u2019s scheduled festivities included vendors selling a variety of meals and wares as well as children\u2019s plays and puppet shows. A Christmas fair along with a carousel was included with live musical performances from the 3rd Infantry Division Band. Additionally, 3rd ID Soldiers shared in the holiday spirit while on deployment in Boles\u0142awiec by giving gifts to the Polish children in attendance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe purpose of the event is an outreach to the community as goodwill towards Boles\u0142awiec as a strong allied nation,\u201d said U.S. Army Maj. Nicholas Stave, battalion operations officer with the 3rd Infantry Division.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Army Lt. Col. David Ike, commander of the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, stands alongside U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Raul Aguilar Jr., senior enlisted advisor for HHBn, 3rd ID, as they attend the \u2018Star of Kindness\u2019 ceremony in the market square in Boles\u0142awiec, Poland, Dec. 15, 2023. The 3rd Infantry Division\u2019s mission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70411,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70409","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70417,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70409\/revisions\/70417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}