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Show Emery County Progress Castle Dale, Utah Tuesday November 12,2002 5A Emery County CENE Students Honor Emery County Veterans Continued from PAGE 1 A. veterans. As a parting gift to the veterans, the Authors club put together a book of the poems they had written in honor of the veterans and presented each with a cop The Soldier by Jordan Sanders 1 ant the soldier who marches day after day through the muggy blood filled air. I am the soldier wdio goes through life, not knowing if I will lie another terrorizing night. The one who experiences w onderful friends dying, as I try to sa e ni self from the show'er of bullets When out of nowhere I see giant explosions of earths soil, and think to nn self, Is that another of my friends. The one with only one leg left after a horrifying explosion of a land mine under my ragged torn feet. The one w ho tries to wash his face but instead gets his face coered in his friends crimson blood. The one with nights filled with screaming and bombs. I am the soldier America by Chelsea Price am America, the place that you call home. I am the place where you will live fore er, And raise your children and watch them grow. The place where you found compan w hen You w ere lonesome. America, the land of the free. 1 The place grow and die. w me here you will H America, America, the place w here you call home. I Am A -- : 1! S ' " 17 I " , r v Soldier by Seth Baantjer fi 1 am a soldier flying a plane. Dropping bombs and 1 missiles At the small, fleeing objects. That are runningand trying . Jr to return fire But were blown apmi instead. . This caused little satisfaction, Because they died on the Outside While w e died on the inside. , r 7 r A- -J The Soldier by Jacob Malone My grandpa the soldier, left for the love of his country. My dad the soldier, left because of his dad and the love of his country. My brother soon to be a soldier, is leaving because of his grandpa, his dad and for the love of his country. I hope to soon become a soldier, because of my grandpa, my dad and my brother and for the lo e of my country. Malone addresses the audience on the reasons wty he became a Marine. He talked of the freedom the armec forces strive to maintain for all Americans. Bill Photos by Patsy Stoddard |