Missouri First is sponsoring an essay writing contest for students ages 15 to 17. The topic selections deal with Missouri and Missourians.
First prize is one thousand dollars.
The contest is open to home, private, and public-schooled kids. Deadline for essays is June 1, 2001. In a very real way the World Trade Center disaster marks a loss of innocence for the United States. Most Americans have always thought of our land as a safe haven of sorts. Up to now we have been spared the type of carnage that is so common in the far away places that are only names and pictures on the network news to most of us.