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The Star Democrat
Veterans honored at Easton Elementary
EASTON — The veterans waited in the hallway. One at a time they were announced by branch, rank and name, and one at a time a fifth grader walked each of them to a front-row table: a grandchild, a niece, a stepchild. Six relatives of Easton Elementary School students were honored that way at the school’s Veterans Day program, which for the first time asked fifth graders to invite the veterans in their own families. “These kids were so proud to have their grandparents and moms and dads join us,” said Michelle Mackall, the fifth grade teacher who led the event for the school. For years the program was a panel of local veterans talking to students. Michael Feehley, chairman of the veterans affairs committee at the Easton Elks Lodge, who has long organized the visit, said he wanted the children to do more than listen. He asked three principals, he said, before one agreed. When he asked Mackall whether students could bring in veterans of their own, her answer was short: “I’m on it.” This year about 160 fifth graders wrote poems, drew pictures, wrote questions and, in a first for the grade, sang. ‘Who can tell me what