blog 9, memorial day weekend

this memorial weekend was very diffrent from the ones i have had in previous years. for the past four years i have been in a military school in which we did not have this holiday off. every monday for mem. weekend my entire school would form up in the town our school was located, wayne pa. and would prepare for the paprade. vfma, our school, was the last unit to march in the wayne parade. the wayne parade was a very important time for a cadet at vfma. not only was the parade to commerorate the soliders and military men of our nation, but was a very honored time for the academy. the parade and our school went hand in hand, we were the main atraction, the parade was based on us. to march in a parade is a very amazing feeling, my freinds and i who came up through tthe academy have went through all four years. the graduating class that year has to collect 200_ what ever there year is of pennies, and when they are at the final pass of the parade we throw the coins up over a bridge, it is a very exciting tradition that i will always remeber for the rest of my life. however this is the first year i will not be taking part of this exciting time, but i will always remeber it.