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Volume 1 • Issue 11 • November 20, 2003
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Veterans Visit RHS
 by Alison Law
   About 1000 World War II veterans die everyday.  There is now less time for them to share their knowledge with the younger generations.  The students of Reedsport High School recently had the increasingly rare experience of listening to veterans tell about their experiences in the war. 
  Near Veterans Day, six veterans came to talk about what they did in World War II, speaking to a group of kids that don’t or barely remember the Gulf War and to whom Iraq is the biggest conflict in memory. Social Studies teacher Mr. Tymchuck said, “[It's] a neat tradition.”
  This year Butch Thompson, Ken Deacon, Walt Naismith, Chet Carbough, Mark Shipman, and Bill Lorenz spoke. Butch Thompson is an 80 year resident of Reedsport.  As a young man, he says he didn't give world events much thought, until December 7th, 1941, the day of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.  He compares it to 9/11, a defining moment for this generation. 
   Thompson served as a teacher at infantry school and he also led patrols in Germany, looking for Germans and taking POWs.  He says war isn't anything like movies such as Saving Private Ryan, but there were many horrible sights and casualties.
   Another veteran who spoke to students was Ken Deacon, an Oregonian who was born in Salem.  He reminded the classes that as a member of the Navy in the Pacific Theater, he was fighting the Japanese philosophy, not the individual people.  Deacon showed students some interesting of the ships he was on and the battles he saw.  
    During the presentation, the veterans also had a table set, a memorial to the veterans who weren’t with them.  It included a white table cloth, rose, lemon, salt and single unoccupied chair, all representing something for the veterans.  Their recollections were both nostalgic and poignant, remembering their former colleagues.
 veteran Veteran Ken Deacon speaks to students about his experiences. (photo by Heather Leach)
Football vs. Scio
by Justin Gannon
  Last Saturday, the Braves Varsity Football Team played in a quarter-final playoff game at Marshfield against the Scio Loggers.
     The game started off with Scio scoring first.  The Braves retaliated immediately and scored on their next drive.  At the end of the first quarter the score was Scio 8, Braves 7.  In the second quarter, Scio scored twice more.  The half time score was 7-22.
    In the beginning of the second half, the Braves opened up with another touchdown making the score 14-22.  The Braves had 2 touchdowns called back which killed them.  The final score was Braves 14, Scio 22.
ftbl lunch Football players bulk up the Friday before a big game. (photo by Jessie Batey)