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PALMER — A Palmer Junior Middle School student in Esther Heck’s class, Jordan Johnson, has won the Veterans of Foreign Wars Patriot’s Pen essay contest.
“Jordan won at the Department Level through VFW Post 9365 in Wasilla,” Heck said. “They awarded him a check for $500 in December, and the Ladies Auxiliary gave him another $150. In January, he got word that his essay had won the state competition and he received an additional $250.”
His essay is now entered in the national competition for a $10,000 U.S. savings bond, competing against the other 49 state winners.
The essay was a 300- to 400-word response to the prompt, “What Patriotism Means to Me.”
“Jordan was so intent on winning that he wrote not one essay, but two,” Heck said.
Palmer Junior Middle School has had a Patriot’s Pen contest winner every year since 2004.
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