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A group of local veterans visited with 8th graders at JSMS in November 2018. They presented and answered questions relating to service, freedom, citizenship and constitutional protections.

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$20 to an obvious that if we do not about war from this Earth and Shirley One Day More will abolish man on Earth poster color butterfly pan flute 856 please about aliens I'm a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars all the gentleman out fine except for the one that you know how Fire by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars honored guest today I am sure you all know why he's up there and we're extremely proud of you out thank you again for the purpose of apartment share today is basically you talk about three things that are intertwined just like a piece of a 3 strand rope we're going to talk about Freedom The Cost of Freedom that's the first one we're going to talk about your right to Freedom what makes you think the right to freedom and the third thing is patriotism but first I want to have a slight competition between students and the veteran doing this is music got all time in foreign countries before there's even the United States played a key role in patriotism our nation is that the Patriots and they go Way Way Back for Christ was born does a Chinese writer a tactician who's broke you can still buy my name is Sun Soo and his book was called the art it is called The Art of War Sun Tzu's principles are still at the u.s. Naval Academy the Air Force Academy and the Military Academy West Point who wrote these things before Christ was born to give you an idea of how long ago that was so I'm going to plan for song 10 seconds 17 seconds 18 seconds and 45 seconds that you recognize the song or the individual singing it or the group and I'm not going to call on you as soon as voting system truck one person recognizes the song you get one vote if all of you recognize the song you get one vote if anybody out there for all the factories recognize the song I get one vote for both I'm going to see who does the best this is the first one is Johnny going to go back 10 seconds so listen up guys okay thanks okay thank you Play song incidentally was in my feelings by Drake if I got by an hour the number to 0 how do I start this week I like this one 37 Chestnut we did Drake who did Taylor Swift OK Google what's the temperature going to be fine giving my fire chain rule for what's the score now there's one in one song left you guys are big trouble Mission Valley what is the score now okay you guys want but there's not any all of us have a life are you sleeping we went to the first two and a half or 3 whatever I found gotten to come out of my phone and and you got the boats on that and then I don't want you all move that song what are the patriotic songs patriotism in the United States has gone back all the way back before this but we were fighting the British Doodle Dandy I'm never heard of that you do love me like you do that song is that song was written by the British to harass us and make fun of us it wasn't a fight song that we wrote to get our troops all all fired up so that kind of had a little twist on that and then throughout the years we've responded regardless of your choice music for the Euro jazz the rock and roll like me to rock or pop rock when it whatever it might be as leave a bottle throughout the years until the different choices of of music to patriotic music and friends in steals in each of us sense of patriotism that's why I called patriotic music so we're going to talk about that more in a little while so we're going to talk about 3 different things today the first one is the cost of the freedoms Frank kid that implicit in the word something is not free like your BMW convertible is not free and you gotta pay something together so Freedom has a cost what do you think the cost is and we have any ideas that's her back there that's a perfect answer it could be your wife or others life Providence Financial part cuz we we has been since the VFW was founded in 1913 and conflicts predominant the perm on cob of this is imputed life we lost so today or 4 days ago I guess you want November 14th the Department of Defense put out a new a report on casualty and record the war on on freedom there are lots of lots of different segments to that and whether we're in Afghanistan or Iraq or any of that other post built there is over there so it just a couple days ago and they said that in that time which is basically your lifetime most of you are 12 13 and 14 years old what's up with these guys and during that time in that conflict we've lost in children action 5404 American men and women that's a pretty big number go back a little bit further putting another a different spin on it and we go to Vietnam but never was 58296 or number to that that changes because they do find names of R5 better than sitting in Vietnam and that number comes from the wall but you're also maybe went down in Washington DC total of human lives lost is approximately 1 someone many American men and women have lost their lives to protect our to get to protect you from getting a little ahead and stuff to protect you buy independent Cost of Freedom chalk Veterans of Foreign Wars is it mention two started in 1913 cents 1913 to 2018 105 years nope I know some of you breaking out during the pencils and paper started Tarpon 73 according to the Veterans of Foreign Wars actions are all right here pages are four pages are 73 different actions on here we use these to ascertain whether somebody is eligible to join the Veterans of Foreign Wars they have them serve in one of these conflicts or Star Wars for 73 of them was 105 years doesn't take much math if you just need to do it quickly in your head to find out that there was a war or a conflict going on every 1.5 years in that house in five years so your chances as a 12 13 14 year old of escaping some sort of conflict before your 65 years old however many years old you want to be when you retire I'm very good there's got to be something happened during that time because statistically what happens to us now Protectors of Freedom which gives us freedom is not free other metrics the six up here alright consider my brother so they time between the time when they were born when their mom gave birth to them and and sometimes between the day that they actually got off of active duty they total themselves I am willing die for my country are you stupid the one minute that I said they paid the ultimate price they said that to nobody goes to war for the possibility that you might not because that's what war is it's going to happen Okay so is the next segment of what we want to talk about what makes you think you have the right to Freedom who's going to answer for that I got an answer so if you want you can come you can't give me a wrong answer yes sir free I like that I didn't hear all of it by light I like what I like what I did hear okay so the thing that gives you the right it's called the Constitution of the United States in the Constitution of the United Bellingham Washington you know may not look like it on TV sometimes down there in Washington or three distinct branches of your Government judicial legislative and executive equal I don't interact with each other and it's a store Tatum way they're cold equal show in the constant in the Constitution also in the Constitution there something called the bill of I have studied that until you getting into a high school but the Bill of Rights is just what it sound like they're there right so the thing that gives you the right is called the Bill of Rights found in the Constitution the whole world can give me some examples of what some of your rights are the right the awesome the environment what is a right to own and bear arms I got I got it freedom of speech that's a good one and the others yes sir Magnolia freedom of press and the others yes peacefully Assemble did the doors are all exactly and they are guaranteed q2u in writing in the Bill of Rights part of the Constitution have the right not to have States military come in and occupy your home that that probably hopefully will never happen because that means we're fighting inside the kind now limits of the United States does that we don't want that never ever happen but if it does happen you're guaranteed that a bunch of Marines are going to come and knock on your door and say okay we're taking over eating all your your marinara sauce and spaghetti and I'm going to stay here for for two months or whatever it is that's in the Constitution you also have in the Constitution the right to due process and in the paper within the last two days there was an example of a Young Man I'm leaving Portland who have been held incarcerated in Portland sure but for our area so his deputies had arrested this young man and he was in class but wasn't reported due process you have the right to an attorney you have the right to have your case heard in a reasonable amount of time except under the law where they talking about terrorist the Guantanamo Bay thing instead things like that that that terrorists apprehended is going to Guantanamo Bay or somewhat detention place inside United States and and they can stay there for months and you'll be no attorney 99.999% of the time that individual or individuals would not be US citizens you are probably all US citizen I asked you don't have to be US citizen to be sitting here okay so we talked about your right now let's talk about the patriotism part of little bit Patriots shut up you think Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are the ones who leave their home the children there male and female that leave their spouse and then go to some forsaken place over in Afghanistan and Pakistan or somewhere where we don't even know operating an end it will stay there until they told that they're they're going to come back home there's an excellent excellent book I talked about I am Malala two years ago I won't do you still teach I won't talk about Malala a lot well I don't know who the Pakistani girl young Young's girl like you she was actually your age when this occur in Pakistan or dad was three different schools the boys only in Pakistan Asian hasn't changed a great deal girls were not allowed to go to school girls did not need an education so they weren't allowed but Malala we got on the school it's the sneak into the back of building and she would listen so she taught herself how to read and she taught herself a lot of other things about what she learned in the class band say contest traditionally the principles they don't call him that they're like headmaster's in each of the different districts like rsu14 and then somebody over the competition and the boys would write an essay and then they all go somewhere out there for us and then we get judged she wrote an essay but you didn't put her first name. She only put an initial Tony didn't know they would get along with a girl they thought it was one of the boys from one of her dad's school so she won the essay contest and then she presented herself to receive the award I caused a tremendous problem shortly thereafter she was insisting she was going to go to school she was in a truck that looks like a back around here with canvas top on it send it with boys and he was going to school and Taliban tank that was that was at that time the enemy that we're more worried about how late is still here the Taliban change and then I got the candles and they said horse Molalla a little girl said I am Malala and that's the title of her book and shot her in the face I shall live she was evacuated Pakistan to London England but she still resides and here's the good part addition to to writing a book she wanted Nobel Peace Prize so she was a patriot but you I just Patriot but not us Patriot but her problem and probably table of the individual now William Wallace is a name that nobody in here she should recognize William Wallace live in 1270 the year 12792 William lived in a place that we now call Scotland but in those days that was all part of England and the King of England that back when they had nights I'm horses and they had Lansing sores and taking things like that to us every night so William Wallace decided that they should be free he was a patriot so he organized stop people from going out and stop Scotland the intestines Scotland fighting against the king's men for their freedom but had to add a one battle and by the King's Men and he was assassinated they try to kill Malala they try to kill William Wallace so I was in 1239 and 90 try to see what the 1997 is anybody here related to John spring phone number and he lives in the area okay John was a fourth grade student Manchester school I took a team of veterans in there in 1997 and when we talk about something so we talk about something similar to this John was sitting out there to 10 year old boy in that class in 1997 when he graduated from high school John join the Marine Corps Rose to the rank of Sergeant at to deploy text to Afghanistan show first two deployments you got one purple heart and two bronze Stars his one purple heart and one bronze star can bring one battle when it's Manheim overrun his Marine Corps position and dreams have been wounded and John went and drag them into a safe area so they couldn't be shot by the Taliban is it going to cost for Freedom by Taliban fire that he man to machine gun don't fight off the Taliban and for that he got that reward and sense gotten out of the Marine Corps and I'm pretty sure he's at living in the Wyndham area are we saw his picture 10 Manchester School up on the up on the bulletin board for admissions office class just two years ago I think in his dress blues with his big purple heart is to buy stars are and he had a relative in the school I hate the big difference and William Wallace and John spring the big difference was what John was doing was for nation that had a constitution he had a chance to succeed because there was a constitution back home that held everything together Wallace and Malala just left the situation of America Malala left you didn't want to know I told you but it hasn't changed much still about the same choke it was right on I know that you don't have a dog thanks for coming I know he had to leave early thank you I'm going to give each of you when you leave here the words intro and the first car is too God bless the USA and and it's one thing to hear them but what read these when you go home and read the very very substantives and thought-provoking and make you do something to write and yeah I'll take the pharmacy then we can hope I can get through because I watch the flag pass by one day it's flooded in the breeze but Young Marines saluting it and then he spit it is I looked at him in uniform so young I'm also proud with haircut square and eyes Alert in stand out in any crowd I thought how many men and women like him had fallen through the years how many died on phone miles how many mothers cheers how many Pilots plane shot down how many foxholes Were Soldiers Graves no freedom is not free this is been by a Kelly strong her name she's now in her mid-to-late twenties still writing poetry that's one of my favorite ones are there many more verses of this so what will happen now we start over on the and over there with went with the tenant and work out what service they were in a little bit about what we did we still were still in good shape you got 15 more minutes away come all the way down to be able to get that out all way down to hear they might I might go when I give it did not then we'll get a chance to ask some questions okay thank you good morning almost good afternoon I was sitting here thinking and looking at you kid owes him and the NHRA we didn't have TV I used to set at home and my father and mother with turn the radio on it night we listen to the people who been killed in action in the Korean War for some reason dad my bad I wanted to so don't listen to that every night they had a list and we could we would concern but I was thinking of that age cuz I went in a high school the draft was still in place and I had to make some decisions most of us in high school if we were we were going to be drafted in so when I was in my junior year my history teacher was a CD and ABC me I always wanted to be a builder I was thinking that that cost in high school so I got my mother and father's permission and I joined when I was a junior that's what I started my military time and once I graduated I want to act you and the bike was deployed in Washington DC then went to what Guam then I was watching it but if you picked out of the $500 35 is what over the side pain and we were the first ones on Saipan after the second World War II clean it up and and clear party Acres of jungle and we had a demolition crew right beside it removing the bombs and some we blew up some we took out to see if they work great with us panda we prepare the site for hospital if they didn't have we put in the electricity we dug Wells set up a rock Russia and the 35s we would if we had different so I really enjoyed that being able to learn different aspects of different trades and we got a ride us to go to we were going to go to lay out so I couldn't say where we will go and I would say that we had to call of Ikea they issue rifles and at the last minute for some reason we didn't go the 35s that we had laid up in the hospital I got pictures that I'm home they give us all shots and and gave us a rundown of what we might expect in the jungles and how to take care of ourselves that way medically and so forth so then I was watching that have to come back home and so bad living with him on my life so I wish you kiddos the best and if it is if it's a good thing if you want you know go in the service if you're doing a good thing for your Country Inn for yourself so good luck my Boys & Girls Club Avenue David Bloch Forces Staff Sergeant hundred first Airborne Division and I was stationed over in Vietnam as a woman pretty big task that you had to know where your your fupa people already everything. you had to order supplies in for them and and let everyone know where you were on the map sometimes if you got into the issues you need to call in the middle of the water what are people at the guy telling me sometimes I've had opportunities to call that ship sailed City for fire but nice I come out there sharing some of my experiences with you that enough thank you very much afternoon back in 1963 well two years I thought two years after that that was during the Vietnam time frame I was I was on the ship during that time I ended up doing 30 years in the Navy during that time I served aboard 8. ships free art craft carrier to submarine tenders to destroy You and I One shifter where we used to all the Marines around and leave them and then we come back to pick him up tours in spring well it's a Philippines Singapore and then I ended up and 1991 and up the salt ownership power did what's it called command master chief I was responsible for all the enlisted personnel or Bordeaux ships what's in most cases consisted of five to six thousand men and women on North Shepherd I don't want that have to share that with you Walder Frey wrinkle live 16 years old Trader Joe's in North Portland and then 52 I went to Korea hip bath Stephen Hawking about five six months come back got out and eat his money phone show me pictures grounded been pre-approved by the teachers that got to show some of my experience my name is Kenneth March I was drafted into the army in September of 1969 ended up serving in Vietnam from March of 1970 to April of 1971 if any you've been camping before a camping out some of the pictures to fix the situation we lived in and be served at Mission was to protect the resettlement village called and did the straps up movement on the trails the enemy Trails coming into the country he was up Pinterest experience don't regret it Memphis serve my country the best I could afternoon my name is Dan Berg and I was in the Navy for 26 years 6 months and 21 days of the Navy Seabee looks like I'm coming over here CB stand for construction battalions nowhere just like a big construction Battalion to build roads are strips you name it will build it but at the same time if we're out doing this and we need to defend what we're doing so the train and get military training near from the Marine Corps on that end Seminole example of what happened there I heard a story about CB unit over in Afghanistan and they were attached to a seal unit up in the mountains and it was just really like nothing nothing they are coming in and they did the best thing those guys ever talk to order shower cuz I never had a shower up there was always cold water to let's type of things are there to see me still so we only have one another some of you have questions I'm not sure if you want to supervise that part so you saw that stand kind of amphibians because we'd go almost bite to the hour of how much active duty we had to buy my total time County Marine Corps reservist / 29 years but active service at my full-time job everyday was 22 years 5 months and 21 days and 11 hour so towards all over the place but twice to Vietnam I had to the very distinct honor a commanding guide Marine Corps Rifle Company and infantry company that came out of Kenny always Bay in Hawaii and they were in Vietnam when I took command of of them now going into a yd of my $200 so Marines if you had two casualties they were gone and you didn't get a replacement now I'm tired units go Afghanistan and sometimes 205 meringue to do Mission I didn't bring the flag in but one of the the special points for the Mead was I was assigned to with 200 brain to protect 22,000 civilians from them yet, and not Amazon river called the Troy River and a big Iron Bridge and there, and the blow up the bridge so we put trolls around there and went out into the to the community in that type of thing and then when I first got there I was when I'm over 6 weeks I would every morning aggravate the enemy I blew out my put the American flag up on the pole that was there left over from the French port and I put the flag up and not my country I don't even know why I'm putting the American I got I talk to the Vietnamese civilian officials they had his structure all all of the Savina pictures of the old anybody that was young was either in the military on our side or in the military on the enemy side all of the men in here would have been in one of those categories wouldn't in school and be the kind of rifle for them and what kind of liposomal was one more time they came they put up a flag with Scarlett with three red stripes on it that's why I doesn't exist anywhere in the world anymore because that Nation doesn't exist anywhere in the world anymore. I've got the flag because when I left there with my unit look the women very old women 10 and they resent the helpers presentation they presented that Flag by to me which one of my very very special special things from Vietnam I know you won't have a question so who's willing to go thank you Ryan even going to answer cuz I said when I was in high school I was going to get drafted and I joined because I wanted to be a builder so that's why I chose to CVS because we built and I hats they say we build we fight but that's why I did it because I wanted to go into something that I might enjoy and learn some if I was in the Navy from 1963 to 1993 Abby how did it feel when you came home hit me up when you came home awesome they shook hands over head I put you through the swamps put in the swimming pools big taco on I wasn't as heavy as a pack horse I weigh 212 when I was in there Wichita Chase like country well let's see I was in the growing pains for 3 years I was in Spain for 3 years and then Singapore for 6 months Naples Italy for 3 months and that's overseas is it a lot of places within the United States , when did you serve fierce 1967 to 1968 I went in 58 to 64 63 to 93 what is 7 + 5569 + 71 64 to 90 56 to 86 yeah I like that you all have it in the morning. if you like near me open or if they were very proud that we would have to stand up for them to help them out a lot with food and help them out a lot with with the with that building problems. Northampton Olivia potato security Kaelyn could you get her recipe for strangers to begin with 2 years I just came back from 1 St George Utah where we need your people and let me serve them is kind of bow ties to talk about things and don't look at pictures revenant I still attend three different ships reunions every year you know we have different areas that was Karen said we weren't on the ground every single day rotated between being on a Firebase is being out carrying a pack and sleeping mattress in the looking at this rated M actresses Bob Bob said Brewer Band of Brothers you know there where we were there for each other in the good times and the bad times we were all always there for each other I don't know ring call the doctor not to get too close to someone in case you losing I feel bad about it I didn't seem to do well try not to laugh healthy if you had children when you are on deployment very very much so special when you're bored shift you make the alarm at 6 sometimes sometimes longer but I had to free kids two sons and a daughter and both of my sons have served in the Navy when did 20 years and older than 10 years so PowerShot lucky there my wife per Ty my girlfriend was able to come over to Rota Spain where the Italian was deployed and not spend some time outside the base and so I asked her if we can get married we got married on the Rock of Gibraltar one of the other stations are at Londonderry Northern Ireland they're on the fights over there and my daughter was born and Dairy Airport I just like to tell you kids if that's something catch me when I went to I was headed for Guam and Saipan I got the California at the Marine base they up and that I was late at night and I went and I put me and I waited purposely cuz I didn't want to have to the wait till I got in there late at night and up they put me in an old dirty Buck way up way up front in the in the building but a touching thing I was trying to sleep and I felt a tap on my shoulder yeah that was a first-class mechanic the Westbrook Maine we had 500 men and women they were going to be getting on the ship the next morning he evidently I don't know how he did it that quick but he found my name but I do talk about being a mother's he made sure he said Rodger you're not going to you left yet because they'll have your sweeping the floors and cleaning and what y'all going with y'all going on that ship if you're the last one I was the last one but that tells you how nice sorry where were you stationed a little while I was in Vietnam I have a couple of interesting fact I was attached to the Americal Division Americal Division is never been on us soil it's always gone the time of War I was also attached to the 4th of the 31st and it's a distinction the only unit that I ever was station on Washington we don't have a lot of time I just want to see it who have a relative that you know who has served in some fun either so I need directions to thank you cards for you to as

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