How does MCHS students learn lessons of a fallen soldier Chance Phelps?
In 1999, Moffat County High School teacher Paula Duzik taught English to a bright, outgoing sophomore with a memorable smile. He eventually would be known as Private First Class Chance Phelps. On Wednesday, MCHS students walked the same hallways Phelps once did, only it was Veterans Day and their footsteps were heavy with the memory and message of the fallen solider. As part of the first Veterans Day celebration at the high school, the student body sat through a screening of an HBO movie depicting the emotional return of the young soldier’s body to his family in Dubois, Wyo., entitled “Taking Chance.” Phelps lived in Craig from kindergarten until 11th grade, when he moved to Palisade. He joined the Marine Corps upon graduation, motivated by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. On Good Friday in 2004, in a small town south of Baghdad, Phelps was escorting a convoy that came under heavy fire. He refused to be evacuated and continued to man his post and cover the other troops. He was fatally wo
In 1999, Moffat County High School teacher Paula Duzik taught English to a bright, outgoing sophomore with a memorable smile. He eventually would be known as Private First Class Chance Phelps. On Wednesday, MCHS students walked the same hallways Phelps once did, only it was Veterans Day and their footsteps were heavy with the memory and message of the fallen solider. As part of the first Veterans Day celebration at the high school, the student body sat through a screening of an HBO movie depicting the emotional return of the young soldier’s body to his family in Dubois, Wyo., entitled “Taking Chance.” Phelps lived in Craig from kindergarten until 11th grade, when he moved to Palisade. He joined the Marine Corps upon graduation, motivated by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. On Good Friday in 2004, in a small town south of Baghdad, Phelps was escorting a convoy that came under heavy fire. He refused to be evacuated and continued to man his post and cover the other troops. He was fatally wo
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