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Veteran’s Day activities

By Richard O Jones | Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 06:41 PM

When Homer Wilson turned 18 years old in 1943, the United States was so embroiled in World War II that he felt like he didn’t have a choice but to enlist.

“You automatically went in the service,” he told a group of sixth graders at Pierce Elementary yesterday, Nov. 11, as part of the Hamilton City School district’s Veteran’s Day celebrations. “You knew it was coming.”

He told them about his trip to Europe on a boat with 15,000 other soldiers and his first encounters with the enemy.

“We didn’t hate anybody and we didn’t want to kill any Germans,” he said, “but we were told it was them or you, so what would you do? They were just kids, too… and they didn’t want to kill us any more than we did them, but it was war time.”

In the afternoon, Garfield Middle School students gathered to hear from members of the high school’s R.O.T.C. program and winners of the schools’ essay contest.

Austin Malone won a $25 first-place prize in the essay contest for writing about his family’s military history.

“No matter whether you believe in war or not, our soldiers deserve respect for their courageousness and their service to our country,” he wrote.

Second place went to Corinne Crum and third to Tristen Chenoweth.

Linden Elementary students walked to the nearby St. Mary’s Cemetery to place flags on veterans’ monuments, and Sheli Zeller’s fourth grade class at Van Buren Elementary wrote letters to her husband’s platoon, currently serving in Iraq.

At the Freshman School, students brought in pictures of people they know who are veterans to create a picture wall, and Bridgeport Elementary students wrote thank you letters to veterans and posted them in the lobby.

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