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VFW honors youth essay winners

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, November 21, 2018

By Scott D. Johnston For Grays Harbor News Group

VFW Essay Contest participants at Ocean Shores Elementary School Thursday: (front row, L-R) Damian Gallegos, Liliana Meyer, Clay Hanson, Camryn Dennis, Jordan Giraldo, Jett York, Cale Eden; (middle row) Keylah Dawson, Katarina Butler, Nathan Brooks, Arabella Ramirez, Elton Rockey, Kaylynn Harig, Jazmine Goldman, Rain Wear. VFW members (back row): Daniel Martin, Robert Hoem, Dennis Hogan, John Link, James Docherty, Jammy Tighe, Cheryl Roe, Robert Howe.
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VFW Essay Contest participants at Ocean Shores Elementary School Thursday: (front row, L-R) Damian Gallegos, Liliana Meyer, Clay Hanson, Camryn Dennis, Jordan Giraldo, Jett York, Cale Eden; (middle row) Keylah Dawson, Katarina Butler, Nathan Brooks, Arabella Ramirez, Elton Rockey, Kaylynn Harig, Jazmine Goldman, Rain Wear. VFW members (back row): Daniel Martin, Robert Hoem, Dennis Hogan, John Link, James Docherty, Jammy Tighe, Cheryl Roe, Robert Howe.

VFW Essay Contest participants at Ocean Shores Elementary School Thursday: (front row, L-R) Damian Gallegos, Liliana Meyer, Clay Hanson, Camryn Dennis, Jordan Giraldo, Jett York, Cale Eden; (middle row) Keylah Dawson, Katarina Butler, Nathan Brooks, Arabella Ramirez, Elton Rockey, Kaylynn Harig, Jazmine Goldman, Rain Wear. VFW members (back row): Daniel Martin, Robert Hoem, Dennis Hogan, John Link, James Docherty, Jammy Tighe, Cheryl Roe, Robert Howe.
Mrs. Wood’s sixth-graders sing the Navy anthem, “Anchors Aweigh,” as Navy veterans stand.
The assembly ended with the playing of “Taps” by Ben Meyers, Lilia Roldan, Cecilia Trudeau, Dameon Morales, Emma Eliason, and guitarist Isaac Bighead.

By Scott D. Johnston

For Grays Harbor News Group

Students honored local veterans — and winners were announced in a pair of youth essay contests sponsored by Ocean Shores VFW Post 8956 — at a Veterans Day assembly Nov. 8 at Ocean Shores Elementary School.

The school gym was full as VFW members posted the colors and performed a flag-folding ceremony. Student leaders did a mail call for many veterans who were in attendance and others did poetry readings. Four different classes sang hymns for the five branches of U.S. military service.

VFW members then recognized all of the OSE students who participated in two patriotic essay contests. Winners of “How the American Flag Makes Me Feel” were Jett York, 1st; Arabella Ramirez, 2nd; Kaylynn Harig, 3rd; and Damian Gallegos, 4th. “Why I Honor the Flag” winners were Elton Rockey, 1st; Keylah Dawson, 2nd; and Katarina Butler, 3rd. The assembly ended with “Taps,” by trumpeters Ben Meyers, Lilia Roldan, Cecilia Trudeau, Dameon Morales, Ms. Emma Eliason, and guitarist Isaac Bighead.

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