Journal #22 All school field trip

On November 13, 2009 (about three days ago) Pleasant Plains High School had an all school field trip. We went t0 four different cemeteries and bases including camp butler, camp lincoln, the air national gaurd base, and the war memorials.

My trip started out with camp butler, which is a cemetery just outside of Springfield. It used to be a military trainingbase for Illinois soldiers who were soon shipped out to fight the confederates. THis was a very interesting place because it has Union and confederate soldiers. It also has soldiers from World War 1 to the Korean and vietnam conflicts. What I found very interesting was the fact that there are some germans, confederates, and koreans buried there ar\s well as american soldiers. Here, at this camp, a lady spoke to us for what seemed like a good 45 minutes but it was probably only half that.

Next, I went to Camp Lincoln and got to see some weapons and vehicles. This was probably my favorite part because the weapons and vehicles were much more interesting to a high school student than the other things. The tour i got of this building was also very interesting because it showed all of the jobs that are handled at Camp Lincoln.

After camp Lincoln i went to the war memorials for the korean, vietnam and world war 2 Wars. We did a little question sheet that took us all the way around the monuments. Fortunately the questions were not difficult and took just a little effort to find. I was getting tired at this point so I would not have worked very hard to find the answers if they were difficult.

For lunch me and luke reynolds ate at burger king together. i went to town on a larger whopper, no lettuce picvkles or tomoatoes, and a large fry. The dr. pepper was also satisfying to my stomach. However, I got a stomach ache because i ate too fast and left the restaurant feeling a little unsettled.

The last place i went was the air national gaurd base. We learned about the fire service there which was a little strange because I expected only jets. Then we saw an f-16 fighter jet which was very interesting.