Sixty local veterans attended Tuesday morning’s Veterans Day program at Greenville High School.
Each year since 2005 the students and staff at the school have presented the solemn service, to honor veterans.
Students spoke and the band and chorus performed. Jennifer Dannaman, teacher at the school, welcomed the veterans, who sat as a group on the gym floor and later in the program introduced themselves. She praised the students and welcomed the veterans.
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The guest speaker was veteran Tony Koonce from Greenville. He spoke for the veterans in attendance.
Koonce started by congratulating and thanking the high school students and faculty for honoring Bond County veterans. He said the program is important to him and the veterans in attendance.
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Koonce told the students and teachers about Art Bollinger and Tommy Maynard, both former GHS students who were killed in the line of duty in the Vietnam War.
