A look at the past and world peace
Last week's prompt for the next meeting of our local Pens and Friends writer's group was to write a journal entry for sometime in the month of November, past or present. Traveling back to some true personal history, here is my effort.
November 9, 1964
My sixth grade teacher Mrs. Murray read President Johnson's proclamation to our class ahead of the Veteran's Day Assembly. He's calling on everyone to remember the veterans who defended us in war and to “rededicate” ourselves to world peace. The real day is Wednesday, but since it's a holiday we have to have the program tomorrow. I was supposed to recite a poem called, “In Flanders Fields,” but when we wrote Veteran's Day essays in class mine got picked — so now I'm reading that. In front of the whole school.
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