Erika Clendenning, 10, a fifth grader at Emily Brittain Elementary School, came up with the idea to honor more than 100 veterans by putting their names and photographs on a bulletin board at the school.

Students at Emily Brittain Elementary School are honoring veterans through a schoolwide project.

During a brainstorming session in Susie DeGeorge’s fifth grade class, 10-year-old Erika Clendenning came up with the idea of a veteran bulletin board, which is a 4-by-8 sheet of plywood decorated to look like the American flag.

Students gathered more than 100 cards and photographs from veterans they know such as family, friends or neighbors.

“It has turned out to be a really neat project,” DeGeorge said. “It’s pretty much completely covered now with these little cards naming veterans.”

The cards include the veteran’s name, military branch and war served in. She said every war is represented stretching back to World War I.

The plywood flag will hang in the hallway of the Butler school through Veterans Day on Tuesday.

Erika said it is good for students to realize how important veterans are and to show how many people in the school know veterans themselves.

“Veterans are the people who look out for us,” she said. “They help us very much because they keep us safe.”

The school on Friday had a Veterans Day assembly that included a history lesson, patriotic songs and a poem for veterans.