<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3Naw5g_1GzJvvQa00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3Naw5g_1GzJvvQa00" width="2000" height="1333" ></figure><p>The Junior Reserve Officer Training Program (JROTC) at Houghton High School presented a program today in honor of Veteran’s Day. The program, which started at 11:11 in remembrance of the World War One Armistice, included a presentation of colors, a rifle drill performance, a presentation of service flags from each of the military branches, a flag folding demonstration, and a POW/MIA commemoration ceremony. The cadets, as well as guest speaker Sergeant Major Randal Meyer (Ret.), spoke to the significance of the day.</p><p>In addition to the public and veterans, students from the high- and middle-schools were in attendance. A slideshow above the gymnasium displayed a presentation of various Houghton High School alumni that have served in the military. “There’s been thousands, in fact we have a little ongoing project some of the students from the AP history class have been helping me with to catalog and database all these Gremlin veterans” says Colonel Dylan Carlson, the JROTC instructor at HHS, “we have about 570 that we’ve identified, and we’re trying to get their photos and all of their information so that we can keep a tally of all the former students that served.”</p><p>The entire event was organized and planned by the cadets, including the program sheets, setup and master of ceremonies. “These Veteran’s Day programs, they are student planned, prepared, and executed, with very little involvement by myself, just some oversight and guidance and resource support, so really they put on the show and I think they just did a fantastic job,” says Carlson.</p><p>The next project the JROTC program project is set to be to hang up the newly-restored honor roll display that was salvaged from the old high school building.</p></div></body>

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The Junior Reserve Officer Training Program (JROTC) at Houghton High School presented a program today in honor of Veteran’s Day. The program, which started at 11:11 in remembrance of the World War One Armistice, included a presentation of colors, a rifle drill performance, a presentation of service flags from each of the military branches, a flag folding demonstration, and a POW/MIA commemoration ceremony. The cadets, as well as guest speaker Sergeant Major Randal Meyer (Ret.), spoke to the significance of the day.

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The Junior Reserve Officer Training Program (JROTC) at Houghton High School presented a program today in honor of Veteran’s Day. The program, which started

Houghton High School hosts Veteran’s Day program

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