{"id":6485,"date":"2022-12-01T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2022-12-01T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T14:32:17","slug":"veterans-day-assembly-inspires-senior-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=6485","title":{"rendered":"Veteran\u2019s Day Assembly Inspires Senior Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hannah Adams \u201923<br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EE <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editor-in-Chief<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6497\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6497 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Photo courtesy: Brooke Rubush\" src=\"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5591-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trumbull veterans speak to the Class of &#8217;23 on Veteran&#8217;s Day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On November 11, this past Veteran\u2019s Day, the class of 2023 gathered in the THS auditorium for a shared commemoration of the soldiers and veterans in the Trumbull community who have bravely served our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twenty-five local veterans, accompanied by THS graduate Jake Moffat, attended the event to help teach and convey the importance of honoring our soldiers on Veteran\u2019s Day, emphasizing that no service is insignificant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each veteran was given the opportunity to speak about their time in military service, with each one receiving well-deserved applause from the students. Veterans also answered students\u2019 questions about communication between different countries, and how we as a community can best honor our veterans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using poetry from Maya Angelou and John McCrae, keynote speaker Dave Sacco expressed his intense gratitude in an impassioned speech to the students, with a notable oration of \u201cIn Flanders Field\u201d to express the emotional and symbolic significance of the poppies that soldiers wear on Veteran\u2019s Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside Sacco\u2019s speech, Trumbull High School\u2019s Chambers choir group performed three ballads to honor the veterans, with beautiful renditions of the \u201cStar-Spangled Banner,\u201d \u201cThank You, Soldiers,\u201d and \u201cGod Bless America,\u201d a wonderful tribute to those who served our country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI stood upon the shoulders of your great-grandparents,\u201d Sacco said while discussing the achievements of the \u201cGreatest Generation,\u201d those that survived the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War II, bringing light to those who fought and died in combat, and \u201cgave up their tomorrows for our today.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assemblies like this one ensure that we as a school collectively honor and remember those that have served and are currently serving our country, keeping in mind that our todays are preserved and maintained by the sacrifices of our veterans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Adams \u201923 EE Editor-in-Chief On November 11, this past Veteran\u2019s Day, the class of 2023 gathered in the THS auditorium for a shared commemoration of the soldiers and veterans in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}