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05-16-07, 08:16 AM
Flag to return to Pearson school
05/16/2007
By KARSTEN STRAUSS
Register Citizen Staff
WINSTED - An American flag will come full circle today.
Pearson Middle School students took a flag from a pole outside the school in October 2005 and gave it to 25th Marine group, 4th Marine Division in Plainville prior to their deployment to Iraq. The Marines returned from active duty, and they will now return the flag to the students.
Under the care of First Sgt. Ben Granger, the flag accompanied the men through training exercises in 29 Palms, Calif., and then on to Kuwait and the Iraqi town of Fallujah, where the Marines were stationed, Student Council Advisor Rudy Rosenstein said Monday. The company returned to the United States last fall.
"All throughout the year we followed the flag and kept e-mail contact with (Granger)," Rosenstein said.
While stationed in Iraq, the students were not told the company's exact location, she said. To do so would have been a security breach, she said.
"(The Marines) hung the flag in their barracks," Rosenstein noted.
The idea to begin the initiative came as a response to hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the tsunami that wrought havoc in Asia and the war overseas, Rosenstein said. Playing a small part allowed children to feel beyond the walls of their school, she said.
Today, Granger and others will present the world-traveling flag to students at a 10 a.m. ceremony in the Pearson School gym.
Karsten Strauss can be reached by e-mail at winsted @regisetrcitizen.com.
Ellie
05/16/2007
By KARSTEN STRAUSS
Register Citizen Staff
WINSTED - An American flag will come full circle today.
Pearson Middle School students took a flag from a pole outside the school in October 2005 and gave it to 25th Marine group, 4th Marine Division in Plainville prior to their deployment to Iraq. The Marines returned from active duty, and they will now return the flag to the students.
Under the care of First Sgt. Ben Granger, the flag accompanied the men through training exercises in 29 Palms, Calif., and then on to Kuwait and the Iraqi town of Fallujah, where the Marines were stationed, Student Council Advisor Rudy Rosenstein said Monday. The company returned to the United States last fall.
"All throughout the year we followed the flag and kept e-mail contact with (Granger)," Rosenstein said.
While stationed in Iraq, the students were not told the company's exact location, she said. To do so would have been a security breach, she said.
"(The Marines) hung the flag in their barracks," Rosenstein noted.
The idea to begin the initiative came as a response to hurricanes Rita and Katrina, the tsunami that wrought havoc in Asia and the war overseas, Rosenstein said. Playing a small part allowed children to feel beyond the walls of their school, she said.
Today, Granger and others will present the world-traveling flag to students at a 10 a.m. ceremony in the Pearson School gym.
Karsten Strauss can be reached by e-mail at winsted @regisetrcitizen.com.
Ellie