A photo essay of the May 21, 2015 Memorial Day Salute hosted at Frazier Mountain High School. 

Photo captions: Above: Katie Duhm—who coordinated the Falcons’ Advanced Placement U.S. History class First Annual Salute to Veterans—greets U.S. Air Force Veteran Gerald Galang. He graduated from high school in Chicago in 1959, then entered the Air Force. He spent four years at Korat Air Base in Thailand in the early part of the Vietnam war, 1963-1967. Right: Veterans from multiple conflicts, including the most recent in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan, told their stories of service to an assembly of students in the FMHS gym. “There wasn’t a dry eye,” said FMHS Principal Sara Haflich, “I’ve never been more proud of our students.”

Rhiannon ‘Rain’ White pins a red carnation to the lapel of a veteran. Cottage Garden donated flowers.

AP History students hosted vets to lunch, then thanked them with a video tribute and a forum for them to speak to students in a schoolwide assembly on May 21, just before Memorial Day.

Nine U.S. Military veterans were hosted to lunch by the Advanced Placement U.S. History Class at Frazier Mountain High School on May 21. That was followed by a school assembly at which veterans shared their stories.

Clockwise (from above) Veterans Ira Cone, Karen Maxwell, Carolyn Chapman and Wilford Bummer tell students of their military service.

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