Horizon Middle School students connect with upcoming Honor Flight
May 18, 2016
On May 16, students in the Horizon Middle School Builders Club packed K-rations for veterans going on the next Honor Flight, which leaves May 22 and coincides with a separate Horizon student trip to Washington, D.C.
K-rations are combat food used by the Army during World War II, but these replica boxes of K-rations include snacks and notes thanking veterans for their service.
Last month the Builders Club held a penny war that raised around $2,200 for the Honor Flight, which takes WWI and Korean War veterans to Washington, D.C., to view memorials built in their honor.
This month’s Honor Flight coincides with the history trip that more than 100 Horizon Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade students, parents and chaperones are taking on May 21-24. The optional trip ties to seventh-grade history curriculum, which covers many of the places students will visit, such as the memorials, Holocaust Museum, Arlington Cemetery and Ford’s Theater.
The Horizon students will connect with the Honor Flight WWII and Korean War veterans at the World War II memorial to have lunch together on May 23.
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