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A8 NEWS Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, May 27, 2020 American Legion Auxiliary awards Humbolt students for winning Americanism essays By Steven Mitchell Blue Mountain Eagle Nearly 100 students grappled with how to address the health and well-being of veterans, the military and their families in the American Legion Auxiliary’s annual Americanism Essay Contest. Coordinator Sherry Feiger said Ellis Tracy Unit 77 has participated for many years, but the pandemic has made it difficult to recognize this year’s essayists. National leaders from the Auxil- iary choose the question each year, and winners are selected on a local level, then state, regional and national. Feiger said the students typically winning first, second or third place in their divisions read their essays at a potluck dinner at the Alec Gay Hall in John Day, but the dinner, due to COVID-19, was canceled. “It was also planned to honor two young women who attended 2019 Girl’s State last June, Kaytlyn Wells and Samantha Floyd,” Feiger said. Humbolt Elementary School teacher Amy Martin’s students took the top three spots in the third- and fourth- grade division. Carter Watterson’s essay won the first prize while Alana Spence and Gage Rosta won second and third prizes, respectively. For the fifth- and sixth-graders, Jessica Surchorski’s students won the first, second and third places. Maleah Archibald’s essay took the top spot, followed by Hannah Cole and Eliza Bailey. Feiger said the first-place essays went to the state competition, but she has not heard if they placed at that level. Watterson wrote that veterans fight for freedom and keep the country safe. “They’re American heroes, “ Wat- terson said. “I want them to have the best care that they can.” Maleah Archibald said address- ing the health and well-being of veter- ans and their families is an issue that is important to her. “Veterans fought for our freedom,” Archibald said. ‘VETERANS’ ‘ADDRESSING OUR VETERANS’ BY CARTER WATTERSON, FOURTH GRADE BY MALEAH ARCHIBALD, FIFTH GRADE I think veterans are the most important people in our lives besides your family. I think that because they are the ones who fight for freedom and keep the United States of Amer- ica safe. I think that if we want to have freedom we should help the veterans by giving them support and getting really good doctors to help them. We could give the veterans Contributed photo and their families Carter Watterson, a care and help if fourth-grader at Humbolt Ele- they need it by mentary School, took first place starting fundraisers in the third- and fourth-grade and raising money division of the American Legion to give them all Auxiliary’s annual Americanism sorts of stuff. Like Essay Contest. This year’s topic we could make was on addressing the health them tiny houses and well-being of veterans, for the poor fami- their families and those who are lies or if they lost actively serving. their homes. One way we can help veterans is we can start a fundraiser to help raise money to give to the homeless veterans or the vet- erans that are poor. We could start off by selling cookies or a lemonade stand or anything else that can help us raise money for them. One other way we can help the homeless veterans is we can build tiny houses or raise money for them to buy a house. I feel like we need to do some good to them because they give us care because they fight for our coun- try and keep us safe. So we definitely owe them something. So we thank them very much for all the good they do for us and the country to keep us safe. OREGON CAPITAL INSIDER We need to address the health and well-being of veterans in the mili- tary and their families. We can help them overcome their stress and disabilities. When they come back from the military, they and their fami- lies have trouble with health issues, finding health care, injuries, finding work, home- lessness and death. We can help them! We need to make sure veterans get all of the health care they need. Some care that they need is not available for them. We need to have all of the health care they need close to them and accessible for them. Wherever they live they should be able to get help. They should get that because they served for our coun- try. Another problem is that some veterans come back and they are homeless. One-third of homeless Americans are veter- ans. When they come home we need to make sure they have a home. We could make up an apartment for veterans (if they don’t have a home) that they can stay in when they get back from the military. Contributed photo Maleah Archibald, a fifth-grad- er at Humbolt Elementary School, took first place in the fifth- and sixth-grade division of the American Legion Aux- iliary’s annual Americanism Essay contest. This year’s topic was on addressing the health and well-being of veterans, their families and those who are actively serving. PTSD is one of the health issues veterans have. It is a disorder where a person has a hard time recovering after being in awful events. Between 11 and 20% of veterans have PTSD. We should make sure they are able to get therapies, medications and go to specialists. Veterans also come back from war and can’t find jobs. They need to support their families. We should make up an organization that is run by veterans so they can easily get jobs once they come back from the military. When they are in the military it is also hard. They have to fight. We could help them by sending them care packages. We could also donate to the USO. The USO helps the military workers and their families. In World War II 420,000 U.S. soldiers died. Many military workers die today. Their families are left by themselves. Their families should be able to get the help they need no matter the cost. They should be able to have food, homes and health care too. Veterans are important. They served for our country. We need to make sure that they and their families get what they need to live. We need to them with their health issues, finding health care, injuries, finding work, homelessness and death. As you can see, we need to address the health and well-being of our veterans, military and their families. 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