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Eighty Tomah High School students are making sure that soldiers serving overseas are remembered. Next week letters will go out to military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The students, junior and seniors in Elizabeth Adams’ English and speech classes, volunteered to write the letters which will be sent along with information about the high school, the school’s website address and a copy of a Tomah newspaper. The correspondence ranges from full letters to just notes.

Junior Kalib Skinner said he was writing a letter because he wanted to show support for the troops. Kalib’s cousin, Jared Crouch, is serving in Afghanistan. He said he was also going to write about how school was going and what the weather was like here.

Megan Carlson, a senior, echoed those sentiments. Carlson, who plans to go into the Army after graduation next June, said she wrote a letter to” ...show support for the troops and let them know “, that people care for them over here.”

The letters are timed to go out the same week that Veterans Day is observed (Nov. 11). Each is being sent along with a patriotic theme card made by special needs students in a classroom two doors down the hall.