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Westminster Students Write Encouraging Notes to Veterans in Honor of Veterans Day
Students continue a Veterans Day classroom tradition.
For the seventh year in a row, students in Ken Boesch’s American Government class at Westminster Christian Academy participated in a class project writing letters and emailing encouraging notes to veterans in honor of Veterans Day.
“First and foremost, I want the students to realize that freedom isn’t free, that men and women have fought and some have given all for the freedoms that we enjoy,” said Boesch. “I’ve done this 7 years, and it’s really neat to see the kids get excited when they get responses.”
Boesch plans to add on to this project and have his students work together to create and send care packages to soldiers who are serving overseas. The plan is for the packages to arrive in time for the holidays.
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Boesch says that this year the project has special significance for him. “This time around, this project is taking on a whole new meaning because my son, who graduated from Westminster in ‘09 went to Rhodes College on a ROTC scholarship and now is in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. So that really brings it home to me.”
“I tell my students this is the most important thing they’re going to do all semester in my class, because they’re going to be a blessing to a lot of people,” said Boesch.