Take a Vet to School Day: Walt Whitman Middle School (4:37)
Ryan Steinbach, an Army and Air Force veteran, and Alice Dixon, one of the first African-Americans to serve in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) during World War II, are honored during a Take a Vet to School Day event in Alexandria, Virginia.
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