Wiscasset middle schoolers honor service members
American Legion members with the stars middle school students made to honor service members. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
Assistant Principal Warren Cossette shares students’ thank you letters with American Legion members. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
C.J. Maroux thanks his grandfather for his service in the Air Force. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
Allie Ferreira thanks ‘Miss Miles’ for her service. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
Assistant Principal Warren Cossette. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
American Legion member Tom Stoner plays “Taps.” EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
American Legion members with the stars middle school students made to honor service members. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
Assistant Principal Warren Cossette shares students’ thank you letters with American Legion members. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
C.J. Maroux thanks his grandfather for his service in the Air Force. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
Allie Ferreira thanks ‘Miss Miles’ for her service. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
Assistant Principal Warren Cossette. EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
American Legion member Tom Stoner plays “Taps.” EDNA MILLER/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset sixth through eighth graders gathered to honor service members, past, present and future Nov. 10. The American Legion was invited as well as service members from the students’ families and community.
To thank them. students created a bulletin board of stars with the names of people they knew who had served. They also wrote letters to service members in general thanking them for their service. Assistant Principal Warren Cossette asked each of the American Legion members present to introduce themselves including the branch of service in which they served and their rank. Then he told students, “These are our local heroes.”
Following the pledge of allegiance, Cossette asked those assembled what the word “indivisible” meant to them. A discussion took place on how the students are members of a community and working together was important for success.
Students got to thank service members important to them as the microphone was passed around. The assembly ended with American Legion member Tom Stoner explaining the significance of playing “Taps” and the bugle; then he played.
