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'We owe them all': Spanish Fork, Salem fifth graders learn from veterans at Richard Johnson Memorial Freedom Walk
“We don’t know them all, but we owe them all,” read the backs of hundreds of fifth graders at Canyon View Park donning matching gray shirts Wednesday. It was a message veterans from American Legion Post 68 in Spanish Fork aimed to imprint upon the young minds attending the ninth annual Richard Johnson Memorial Freedom Walk, an event established to teach the young generation about military service and how individual freedoms do not come freely. “In fifth grade, they are learning about American history. But in American history, they're not talking about where their freedom comes ...
