Seventh graders make trek to Washington

By EVELYN LONG -

Mak­ing the tra­di­tional annual trip to Wash­ing­ton D C over Memo­r­ial Day were 59 Cardington-Lincoln sev­enth grade stu­dents accom­pa­nied by 16 chaperones.

The four day — three night itin­er­ary included sched­uled tours and vis­its to Wash­ing­ton mon­u­ments, memo­ri­als, the White House, etc. but the high­light of the visit was the lay­ing of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol­dier. Also high­lighted was the lay­ing of the wreath at the Viet Nam Memo­r­ial. This wreath is spon­sored by Jenkins-Vaughan Aux­il­iary Unit 97 of the Amer­i­can Legion, Card­ing­ton. It is cre­ated each year by Shirley Dendinger, the unit’s his­to­rian. This year the wreath was laid by sev­enth graders Alyson Adams and Libby McConnell. It was placed at the adjoin­ing Three Ser­vice­men Statue of three men car­ry­ing infantry weapons. It has been called both The Three Sol­diers and The Three Ser­vice­men. The statue is placed in a grove of trees near the west entrance to The Wall. A flag is flown 24 hours a day. Also placed with the wreath was a procla­ma­tion not­ing that the wreath was made and spon­sored by Unit 97.

Lay­ing the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Sol­dier were Nathan Gard­ner, Kait­lyn Bump, Nadia Ker­man and Mac Warren.

The sev­enth grade stu­dents were also priv­i­leged to meet MG Lin­ning­ton who was hold­ing the plan­ning book for Pres­i­dent Obama’s visit to the Viet Nam Wall Memo­r­ial on Memo­r­ial Day.

The tour included a White House Photo Op at Lafayette Square, Ford’s The­ater walk by, and tours of the Air and Space Museum, National Cathe­dral, National Zoo, Em– bassy Row, National Archives, World War II Memo­r­ial, FDR Memo­r­ial, Mar­tin Luther King Memo­r­ial, and the Lin­coln Memo­r­ial. They later vis­ited the Mount Ver­non Man­sion Jef­fer­son Memo­r­ial, Iwo Jima Memo­r­ial, Arling­ton Ceme­tery, Air Force Memo­r­ial, the Kennedy Cen­ter, the U S Capi­tol, Nat­ural His­tory Museum and the Smith­son­ian Museum.

Orga­niz­ing the tour through Son Tours was Troy King. He was assisted by Donna Kill.

Stu­dents fund this trip them­selves and through fund rais­ing activ­i­ties held dur­ing the year. Plans are cur­rently under­way for the tour in 2013.

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