Wayland Town Crier 6/3/10: Wayland Middle School students honor young soldier on DC trip. This past April, Richard Battaglia, an eighth-grade science teacher at Wayland Middle School, accompanied approximately 200 eighth-grade students on their annual trip to Washington, D.C. The trip serves as the culmination of class studies on justice, why injustice occurs, and the mechanics of creating a just society. Among other places, the students visited the Holocaust Museum and Arlington National Cemetery. At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Battaglia recognized it was difficult for the students to see beyond the gravestone to realize the remains of a person, with a story and a family, rested there. As a result, when Battaglia learned of the death of Matthew Pucino, a young soldier from Plymouth, killed in Afghanistan last November and buried in Arlington National Cemetery, he contacted the soldier’s sister and inquired as to whether the eighth-graders could learn about Pucino’s life, see pictures of him, and pay their respect at his gravesite. The family kindly agreed.