FORT BELVOIR, Va. -- A group of Soldiers and civilians who normally spend their workdays on Fort Belvoir spent some time Tuesday away from the installation, reading to students at Occoquan Elementary School.
"What's really cool is the readers are active-duty or retired military, and its right before Veterans Day," said Occoquan Elementary School librarian Christine Brooks.
This is the first time that readers from Belvoir have visited Occoquan Elementary, Brooks continued. The school's students, in kindergarten through fifth grade, have been studying about Veterans Day.
Volunteer readers Cardell Hunter and Cynthia Johnson had the students enthralled as they read to them throughout the day.
"I witnessed readers read to my kids over the years," said Hunter, who said he was extremely honored to participate in the program.
Hunter read to a group of fifth graders from a rocking chair. The students sat on the floor, listening attentively as Hunter read "Our Flag." Johnson helped Hunter out, by standing at attention and waving a flag when it was appropriate as the story was read.
Johnson read several books, including "Mr. Lincoln's Way," by Patricia Vacco, "Pinduli" by Janelle Cannon, and "Boxes for Katje," to the school's second graders.
"With second graders, the younger you get, you have to say things like 'woosh,' sound effects," she said laughing.
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