With the weather providing a warm sunny weekend for the first time in months you would thing that high school students would be out enjoying recreational activities. The cadets of Pottstown High School's Air Force JROTC Unit PA 951 chose instead to spend their Saturday morning cleaning and landscaping the veterans memorial island at Manatawny Park. 

 

Lead by their unit commander Col. James Porter they cleaned and landscaped the memorial areas in preparation for Memorial Day activities. Cadets spent Sunday honoring the memory of members of the military who sacrificed their lives to protect our freedoms.

 

Members of the unit walked 14 miles on the high school stadium track in honor of the thousands of lives lost in WWII during the Bataan Death March. U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war were force to march to a prison camp.The march was characterized by severe physical abuse and wanton killings, it was later judged by an the Allied Military Commission as a war crime. 

 

The cadets of PA951 are preparing themselves to become our future leaders and as such have made a commitment to serve our community and honor the sacrifices of those who have come before them,said Col. Porter.