Juniors reflect on sacrifice on Vietnam Moving Wall field trip
Earlier this week, our junior class traveled to the National Warplane Museum in Geneseo to see The Moving Wall, a 1/2-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Our students learned about the significance of the memorial and surveyed some of the more than 58,000 names etched into it.
While at the museum, juniors also took a tour of some of its exhibits and many historic aircraft, including the Saigon Lady, a C-130A that was commandeered by South Vietnamese Air Force pilots in the spring of 1975 to get them and their families to safety in Singapore as North Vietnamese troops advanced on the then South Vietnam capital.
Students also toured the famous Whiskey 7, a functioning C-47 troop transport plane that carried paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne into Normandy on D-Day during World War II.
Many thanks to the National Warplane Museum for hosting our students and for making this impactful experience possible.
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