IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers THRILLED TO BE HONORED—Julian Griggs, an Army ROTC cadet from Little Rock, Calif., celebrates after receiving an award from Thousand Oaks Youth Leadership Conference director Lt. Col. Tom Zuppard during the Class of 2009 awards banquet. The event at California Lutheran University last Thursday culminated a four-day conference, part of the Patriotic Education program of the Military Order of the World Wars, which promotes leadership, patriotism and free enterprise.