Wednesday, November 28, 2001
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Wednesday, November 28, 2001 |
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Peachtree City students honor veterans By SALLIE
SATTERTHWAITE
More than 670 Huddleston Elementary School students, their teachers and many of their parents, gathered around the school yard flagpole early Monday morning of Veterans Day week to honor the nation's veterans and to pay respects to the flag. The hubbub grew as rank upon rank of classes each an inch or two taller than the one before it paraded to their positions outside the Peachtree City school. On a signal of teachers' upraised hands, silence fell on the shivering crowd. The wind swirled leaves from nearby trees around a color guard from Cub Scout Pack 175 as they tugged on the lines that raised the Star-Spangled Banner and the Georgia state flag. Principal Becky Maddox welcomed a cadre of approximately a dozen World War II veterans who were given front row seats to the ceremony. In the crowd, uniforms of all branches of the U.S. military stood out among the mostly red-white-and-blue garments of other moms and dads. Maddox read several tributes to veterans, and the clear voices of the color guard led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. Following the singing of the national anthem and "Proud to be an American," the program concluded with a trumpet call of Taps before the youngsters returned to their warm classrooms in respectful silence.
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