In moving ceremony, St. James Catholic School students offer thanks to vets
Kaleb Villalba, a fifth-grader at St. James Catholic School, who was dressed in a red dress shirt and a red, white and blue tie, said it was important to give thanks to veterans for “giving everyone else liberty.”
He was one of the fourth- through eighth-grade students from the Madison school — many dressed in red, white and blue — who sang songs and gave cards to veterans at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Friday in honor of Veterans Day. The cards were made by the school’s elementary students with help from their buddies who presented them.
In addition, students and the veterans observed a moment of silence for fallen soldiers.
Frank Bayer, who lives outside of Cross Plains and served in Vietnam for 14 months, said he was touched when a handful of kids gave him cards.
