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Blossoms for the Brave
Posted June 25, 2013
On Friday May 24, Hale Makua staff members and volunteers traveled with 13 Long Term Care residents to the State of Hawaii building in Wailuku. They attended an event called Blossoms for the Brave to honor veterans. Kaunoa Senior Center organized the community to make 2,500 lei the morning of the event. Our residents brought plumeria flowers from Hale Makua’s Kahului campus and hands willing to work to the event. Two days later on Memorial Day, the lei were placed at the Makawao Veterans’ Cemetery.
This trip to Blossoms for the Brave illustrates Eden Principles #4: “An Elder-centered community creates opportunity to give as well as receive care. This is the antidote to helplessness” and #6 “Meaningless activity corrodes the human spirit. The opportunity