JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- With school out for Veterans Day Friday, students on the Southside honored the nation's veterans today.
The Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps from Wolfson High School traveled to San Jose Elementary School to join students in a ceremonial flag raising and musical performance.
The singers were in the second and third grades, and they performed several patriotic tunes for the crowd.
PICTURES: Southside Students Honor Veterans Day
One of the soldiers present at the ceremony was an Army recruiter whose wife is a guidance counselor at the school.
"I'm very proud of him; I've watched the military change his life," said Rashawnda Lloyd-Miller of her husband. "He's doing very very well for himself."
She said she's known him since he was 11, and has witnessed him change in the 12 years since he joined the Army at the age of 18.
Lloyd-Miller also spoke about the need for Veterans Day.
"(We commemorate the day) so that our students understand that freedom is not free...some of them may know about things like 9/11, but they don't know a whole lot, so we have to educate them."
First Coast News