In The News: Flying The Colors Proudly

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Rachel Gonzalez sounded like a typical color guard captain as she barked orders at flag-toting peers on a practice march across the Hammett Bowen Jr. Elementary School basketball court.

But the fifth-grader isn’t typical, and neither is the group she commands.

Gonzalez is the captain of the elementary school color guard, a unit organized by a Hammett Bowen teacher and a retired Korean War veteran.

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Posted by on Sunday, November 9th, 2008. Filed under DCA News.