On Nov. 11, I experienced and had the best day in my whole life and that was being a part of Veterans Day in Sedalia.
It started at Smith-Cotton High School, which we all know by now was their first time doing it and from what I heard a single JROTC cadet presented this and pressed forward to make this a day that a lot of us will never forget. I remember years ago when I worked at Wentworth Military Academy as an admissions counselor, and JROTC was in the planning stages at Smith-Cotton.
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