Our Field Trip, by JPD

"Today Mom, MPD, and I went to the Veterans' Museum. It was so cool. We saw a parachute guy, a real helicopter with a soldier leaning out with his gun, an airplane painted with gills like a fish, a bi-plane, a tank, a cannon, cannonballs, a piece of the Berlin wall, army boots, a camouflage army uniform, Civil War stuff, a real periscope from a submarine, a model of an aircraft carrier with 17 planes on it, and an army jeep. The cannonballs were so heavy I could barely lift them but I am strong.

"When I grow up I want to be an army guy because I love the army so much. Because you can drive a plane and you get to paratroop. Army guys have to be brave and strong and always look out for bullets coming toward them.

"My Grandpa was a real airplane army guy pilot in World War II. His plane got shot down behind enemy lines in Germany. He hid and escaped in the woods. When I grow up I want to be a hero like him."







More from JPD (now on a roll after describing our field trip)...
"On the way home from the museum we saw a real jeep that was painted army color in the McDonald's parking lot [where Mommy was getting a Diet Coke--ed.]. Then we got home and I watched some movies of real paratroopers on Mommy's computer.

"I had a dream that I went into the army and then I trained by sliding on a hook off a giant building. Then I ran so fast because people were trying to kick me to make me run fast and then it was even worse--people were parachuting on me everywhere and I had to run away so fast!

"I had a dream that I went to the Veterans' Museum and I was a statue. I was hanging up on the ceiling because I was parachuting out of a helicopter and every night we ate at night because we had to stay up and be statues all day. Then there were hundreds of bad guys in the Veterans' Museum and all in the Capitol and even more all over the whole United States and the whole world. My friend Dillon and I killed them all and we became very famous."