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Show Valley View to Honor Veterans Valley View Elementary will be holding a special assembly assem-bly on November 1 1 from 2 to 3 p.m. in the school auditorium to honor Veterans, including two of their own teachers who have served in past wars. Fifth grade teacher, Paul Schoonover, received a Purple Heart for his service as a Marine Ma-rine in Vietnam. Fourth grade teacher, Sherrie Ellsworth, served for three years at the end of Vietnam and for nine years with the 300th MI Headquarter in Draper. The Valley View PTA organized or-ganized the assembly which will include a color guard presentation, pre-sentation, slide show, musical numbers and recognition of Veterans. PTA President Cyd-ney Cyd-ney LeMone feels the assembly will help the students pay tribute trib-ute to Veterans, from teachers to family members, who have made sacrifices for our country. coun-try. "Knowing that a teacher or parent has served their country, makes it personal for the students stu-dents and will hopefully encourage encour-age them to respect our Veterans even more" Cydney said. Teacher and Vietnam Veteran, Veter-an, Paul Schoonover, has spent many hours recreating the Vietnam Viet-nam Memorial Wall by printing out each of the 58,000 names onto posters. "I wanted to make these posters so the students would be able to visualize how many lost their lives in Vietnam. Telling them is one thing, but seeing the names in writing has a bigger impact" Paul stated. "I really want our students to understand un-derstand that there are people risking their lives every day to defend America, including the parents of some of our own students" stu-dents" he added. Included on the wall are . the names of soldiers from Pleasant Grove that lost their lives in the war. "I knew the men that died from Pleasant Grove and I hope that by seeing their names and paying tribute to our Veterans during the assembly, as-sembly, the students will have a better sense of who and what we are honoring on this special day" Paul said. Veterans and community members are invited to attend the Veterans Day assembly. |