Salisbury High School JROTC salutes the Harold B. Jarrett American Legion Post 342 for their continuing support of the unit. Post 342 has supported the unit financially and in-kind, with contributions totaling more than $10,000 in the seven years since this unit was established. The post has sponsored cadets for summer leadership schools every year. It helped us purchase Color Guard items when we first established the unit. It also sponsored several cadets on action trips to Florida, Alabama, New York and Atlanta.
Harold B. Jarrett has co-sponsored four of our seven military balls. Over the years, they have held essay contests to provide refurbished laptop computers to several of our students and a printer for our cadet staff office.
The list of their acts of kindness goes on and one.
This unit owes a lot of its successes to the continued support of American Legion Post 342. Comrades like Harry Garwood, Gaither Keener, Wayne Kennely, Willie Pleasant, John Troutman, Gene Auten and Charles Swank endorsed us from the first request, and later, Mark Cauble added our unit as a Post 342 school and community sponsored activity.
— Major Queen Williams

Salisbury High School

Williams is the JROTC commander and senior aerospace science instructor at Salisbury High.

First of all, I want to say thanks to God for his miraculous escape plan for mankind, the only one that has ever existed.
Second, I want to say thanks to Jim Sides and all of the Rowan County commissioners for rising up to the cause of Christ.
Did you catch the meaning in the two paragraphs above?
First, you give God thanks; then, in the second place, you may give mankind thanks.
I read some scriptures in the first five books of the Old Testament that Moses wrote. These books are from Genesis through Deuteronomy and are also known as the Torah.
I recall some scriptures where God mentioned what we’re supposed to do about an injustice. I don’t recall whom he was talking to, but I do remember what he said about justice. God said, “Thou shall have a voice. Thou shall make a stand for justice. Thou shall pursue it. Thou shall run after it.” This sounds like a warning.
More prayer could benefit our nation. We need to pray for the leaders of our nation and also those of other nations; also for our armed forces.
— Carolyn Osian

Salisbury

A May 30 editorial mistakenly referred to Dana Bedden, a candidate for Wake County school superintendent, as “she.” Bedden is a male.