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Wall helps kids connect with veterans’ service
by Outspoken on Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:50 am
Wall helps kids connect with veterans’ service
By Nick Sambides Jr.
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
ENFIELD, Maine — When Jeanne Corriveau and Glenda Crosby started collecting photographs of armed service veterans from students and Enfield Station School staff and put them on a school wall last week, they figured the project would culminate on Veterans Day.
They were wrong.
As of Wednesday, their effort had grown from a handful of pictures to about 100, and residents and community groups with no direct connection to the SAD 31 school, such as local VFW and American Foreign Legion chapters, keep bringing more.
The two education technicians said they had no idea how many more pictures they will get, or how much more wall space they will need. They do know that they have hit a nerve and united the school’s communities — Burlington, Edinburg, Enfield, Howland, Maxfield and Passadumkeag — in a way they never imagined.
“The pictures are still coming in and it’s not like we’ve advertised that we were doing this,” Crosby said Wednesday. “People are just hearing about it and bringing in their pictures. It has just taken off.”
“I don’t take any down or refuse any,” Corriveau said. “I don’t know how I could do that. Every one of them is special.”
Usually of students’ relatives, the pictures are head shots, snapshots and portraits of veterans and are grouped loosely according to era, from World War I to the Iraq War, under the heading “A Symbol of American Pride and Strength.”
Most are captioned with the subjects’ names, dates and branches of service. Photographs of those killed in action are framed with simple black cardboard. Newspaper articles, the U.S. Constitution and the oaths of service are also among the items adorning the wall, which is just beyond the school’s front doors and to the right of the cafeteria entrance.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/93190.html
By Nick Sambides Jr.
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
ENFIELD, Maine — When Jeanne Corriveau and Glenda Crosby started collecting photographs of armed service veterans from students and Enfield Station School staff and put them on a school wall last week, they figured the project would culminate on Veterans Day.
They were wrong.
As of Wednesday, their effort had grown from a handful of pictures to about 100, and residents and community groups with no direct connection to the SAD 31 school, such as local VFW and American Foreign Legion chapters, keep bringing more.
The two education technicians said they had no idea how many more pictures they will get, or how much more wall space they will need. They do know that they have hit a nerve and united the school’s communities — Burlington, Edinburg, Enfield, Howland, Maxfield and Passadumkeag — in a way they never imagined.
“The pictures are still coming in and it’s not like we’ve advertised that we were doing this,” Crosby said Wednesday. “People are just hearing about it and bringing in their pictures. It has just taken off.”
“I don’t take any down or refuse any,” Corriveau said. “I don’t know how I could do that. Every one of them is special.”
Usually of students’ relatives, the pictures are head shots, snapshots and portraits of veterans and are grouped loosely according to era, from World War I to the Iraq War, under the heading “A Symbol of American Pride and Strength.”
Most are captioned with the subjects’ names, dates and branches of service. Photographs of those killed in action are framed with simple black cardboard. Newspaper articles, the U.S. Constitution and the oaths of service are also among the items adorning the wall, which is just beyond the school’s front doors and to the right of the cafeteria entrance.
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/93190.html
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