Charles Warner|Daily Times Buffalo Elementary School students Levi Allen, Abbey Freeman and Samuel Elliot hold the posters they made for the Veterans Day contest sponsored at their school by the Union County Veterans Day Parade Committee. Allen and Elliot are in the third grade and Freeman in the fourth grade.

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Charles Warner|Daily Times Foster Park Elementary School students Dallis Pierce, Chase Brown and Arianna Whitmire hold the posters they made for the Veterans Day contest sponsored at their school by the Union County Veterans Day Parade Committee. All three are in the fifth grade.

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Charles Warner|Daily Times Jonesville Elementary School students Emma Stover, Elizabeth Green and Colin Hames hold the posters they made for the Veterans Day contest sponsored at their school by the Union County Veterans Day Parade Committee. Stover is in the third grade, Green is in the fourth grade and Hames is in the fifth grade.

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Charles Warner|Daily Times Lockhart Elementary School students Kaitlin Parks, LaTroy Kershaw and Bryana Horne hold the posters they made for the Veterans Day contest sponsored at their school by the Union County Veterans Day Parade Committee. Parks is in the fifth grade, Kershaw is in the first grade and Horne is in the third grade.

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Charles Warner|Daily Times Monarch Elementary School students Mackenzie Murphy, Nathan Harris and Noah Harris hold the posters they made for the Veterans Day contest sponsored at their school by the Union County Veterans Day Parade Committee. Murphy is in the fourth grade, Noah Harris in the third grade and Nathan Harris in the fifth grade.

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Charles Warner|Daily Times Union Christian Day School students Brianna Stewart (first grade), Ayden Burgess (second grade), Grayson Heatherly (third grade), Maria Pieska (fourth grade) and Wyatt Fowler (fifth grade) hold the posters they made for the Veterans Day contest sponsored at their school by the Union County Veterans Day Parade Committee. They and the contest winners from five other schools carried their posters in Monday's Veterans Day Parade.

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UNION — The marchers in Monday’s Veterans Day Parade included 20 young artists who carried their work honoring veterans.

The young artists were students from Buffalo, Foster Park, Jonesville, Lockhart and Monarch elementary Schools and the elementary grades of Union Christian Day School. Each student carried the poster he or she had drawn as part of a contest sponsored through their schools by the Union County Veterans Day Parade Committee. The posters featured patriotic themes and celebrated and thanked veterans for their service to America.

Cindy Fore, committee member and director of the Union County Veterans Affairs office, said the committee sponsors the contest and a similar essay contest to get the students more involved and educate them about veterans and their service to the nation and the community.

The authors of the winning essays also marched in the parade alongside the winners of the poster contest.

Editor Charles Warner can be reached at 864-427-1234, ext. 14, or by email at cwarner@heartlandpublications.com