On May 27, 2016 the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School students along with Mr. Wronko invited National Guard veteran and current fifth grade teacher for the Barack Obama Elementary School, Kevin Williams, to attend a special Memorial Day Ghana session.
This session began with Ms. Friedman and her chorus singing America The Beautiful. From there Kevin Williams spoke to the students from Ghana and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School about his military experience as a medic. In addition, he also talked about his religious views and answered numerous questions from the students in Ghana. After Kevin Williams spoke, Mr. Wronko’s students did numerous presentations on the meaning of Memorial Day, Arlington Cemetery, World War One, the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Britain, the use of the atomic bombs, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Red Baron, the battle of the Ironclads: Monitor versus Merrimack, Rosie the Riveter. and the Allies ending the threat of German U-boats in World War II. These projects were done as power point presentations, written reports with visual posters, and oral commentaries.
Lyrics to America The Beautiful:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine!
O Beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Students who made this possible:
Kayla Byrd, Nai’Heem Crooms, Daniele Delgado, Viridiana Jacobo,
Perfecto Kendle, Tatiana Laurore, Christlie Lavarin, Oscar Limon
Vasquez, Rodney Loiseau, Maria Lopez, Asion Murchison, ShyAsya Parker,
Oswaldo Pelaez, Ali Salahedin, Eduardo Vargas Cruz, Deicie Vasquez,
Djephca Cagilus, Marc Kenley St. Surin, Andrit Garnica, Mikayla
Serrano, and Jaiden Griffin
