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support for the troops.
Proof of this support can be seen each Friday as Rappahannock County High School students exhibit their patriotic feeling by wearing red, white and blue or by wearing a yellow arm wrap.
“This was by unanimous vote,” science teacher Tom von Fange said of the students’ decision to wear the national colors or yellow.
Though, while feelings of support are strong, feelings of fear and anxiety are real and near for teenagers looking at a world at war.
“It’s probably hardest for the seniors,” Mr. Heddleston said, adding he can relate to their questions of possible draft reinstatement and losing friends and family. The draft of 1973 ended just weeks before Mr. Heddleston would have been forced to leave his student position at Kent State University in Ohio and report for a tour of duty in Vietnam. “I know what the seniors are feeling with the,.threat of draft,” he said, though he feels those students who made the decision to join the armed forces before the war began, have not changed their plans for after graduation.
“The ones who were considering the military as an option, still are,” counselor Good-Ewing said, adding even a few other students have shown an interest since the war’s beginning. “But they feel very strong about it one way or the other, there is no lukewarm,” she said.
Feelings of war, the possible threat of losing a family member or friend, the idea of the draft, create many anxieties for young adults.
“I’ve seen about eight students,” Mrs. Good-Ewing said,
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