BARDSTOWN, Ky. (LEX 18) — Every veteran has a story to share. We just may not know it yet. That’s true for Laura Craig, a social studies teacher at Bethlehem High School.

“My grandfather was in the military,” she said. “I just grew up kind of hearing about that, like ‘my time in Germany, my time in Germany,’ but it’s like, he's never going to have a movie made about him or anything.”

Craig and her students in Bardstown are learning more about our nation’s veterans by taking part in the Silent Heroes program put on by National History Day.

“These men went and fought and served their country, but then they came right back home, and they didn't expect glory, parades,” Craig said. “They just went back to living their lives and being community leaders.”

This year, Craig is one of 52 teacher

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