KHS Veteran's Day Observance 2009
If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

                           ~Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
                             1 January 1970
                             Dak To, Vietnam

Michael O'Donnell, from Springfield, Illinois, was a helicopter pilot assigned to the 52nd Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade, based at Dak To and Pleiku. On March 24, 1970, attempting to rescue eight soldiers, his copter was shot down. He and three crew members were declared missing in action. In 1977, he was promoted to major. A year later, he was officially declared killed in action. He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.
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Winners of the Veteran's Day Door Decorating Contest were Mrs. Schwab's Homeroom 167 (left) and Miss Smith's Homeroom 139.
 

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