Last week, our school took the sophomore class on a field trip while the juniors took the ACT test. We stopped at a gallery that was showing local middle and school students' artwork. This was my favorite:
Here's a collabortive piece done by our high school students:
After that, we moved along to visit some military memorials. A Vietnam veteran and a Marine veteran who was in Beirut, Lebanon, at the time our embassy was bombed were on hand with their wives to talk to us about Lebanon, 9/11, and Vietnam. Here is the local monument commemorating the Marines who perished in Lebanon as well as the four who died in Grenada:
The 9/11 memorial was a remnant of the Twin Towers. Everyone touched the jagged edge as he or she walked by. These kids were toddlers on that horrible day, but they know now what they couldn't know then: 9/1l shaped their world.
The Vietnam memorial was just as amazing as the previous two memorials. The names of the fallen were etched in glass, and the effect was ghostly. Can't even tell you. So many of our students had family members who were there. Some had multiple family members there, and they paid their respects.
The names of the fallen who came home were followed by an asterisk. Those who were still at large were followed by a circle.
Our World Tuesday
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