This year marked the 22nd Veterans Day Breakfast. The event was hosted in the Hancock Place Elementary School gymnasium on November 9th 2025 at 8:00am. The students of Hancock devoted time to volunteering and serving the veterans.
“[This Veterans Day breakfast] is good for the veterans because it shows that younger generations know how, and can respect the people that fought for their country.” Freshman Band student Kristian Taylor said.
Veterans Day is a time to show appreciation to those who serve our country. For the Hancock Place School District, they show our appreciation for the Veterans of their community through the Veterans Day Breakfast ceremony.
“The community really enjoys this celebration,” HHS math teacher David Tidwell said. “Veterans will call and RSVP weeks in advance and they tell us how excited they are to attend.”
Sponsored by STUCO and the Renaissance club, the team strived to fill the day with ways to honor the veterans of their community.
“I think it’s important to show veterans how much they are appreciated for the hard work and sacrifice they made for us,” Tidwell said.
It started with welcome introductions from Mr. Tidwell. After the introduction, they began the presentation of the colors. The Scouting American troop 582 posted the flags for the ceremony in order to honor America and its brave soldiers. Then, once the flags were posted, the pledge of allegiance was led by HHS social studies teacher Mrs. Emily Hill. When complete, a special performance of the “Star Spangled Banner” was performed by the HHS school band class.
“I feel like there are a lot of nationalistic songs that are really important to respecting veterans and appreciating veterans for what they do,” Band teacher Mr. Bryan Greenberg said. “Playing that effectively too shows how much we care about what they did for our country and what we are able to do because of what they did.”
Having an early call time at 7am was not easy for the students. However, their willingness to show up and support those who served their country showed the maturity and leadership of the students at Hancock high school. The effort they put into practicing and performing each piece was definitely admired by the crowd.
“I was getting lots of compliments even from when we were just warming up and doing practice run-throughs from veterans and various audience members saying how well we were doing,” Greenberg said. “Overall I think we really help kind of seal the deal on making that veterans day breakfast just a little bit more meaningful,”
After the performance, the retiring of the flags was completed by Scouting Troop 582 and a second performance by the band “American Pride” was shown. Finally, the ceremony came to an end complete with a full breakfast buffet served by the students.
“The smiles on their faces mean so much. They come in and immediately have an expression of pride and thankfulness and I’m glad I can be a part of it,” Tidwell said.
