Paris honored Veterans Wednesday with Bourbon County high School students and the band taking part.

There was a parachute jump traveling Vietnam wall and several speakers.

Organizers said they wanted to thank veterans and teach students learned the value of service.

This event that we held in pairs today, it's the first time that we've had one here in pairs as part of our Week of Valor during the eight days leading up to Veterans Day.

We have programs each and every day.

This is one of them.

We had the parachute jump, the Vietnam traveling while we had various members here speaking.

This driver.

Yes, He is a 101 year old World War two veteran.

For those who know Albert, because I believe he's pretty well known here in central Kentucky, he was a Red Bull Express driver during World War Two.

He drove in support of General Patton and the third Army as they marched through Germany and a Red Bull Express service.

You know, they drove the ammunition trucks and the fuel trucks.

And so they had a pretty dangerous job.

And and Mr. West had a whole lot of interesting stories to share.

Intel.

My favorite part was getting to talk to Dr. West.

He just said, just an overall amazing man that I was able to meet.

I feel honored to shake his hand.

He told us a story he had actually never told anybody before.

He told us about his experience on the Red Bull Express, I believe it was called, and how it was how he would take mail and deliver it and how African-Americans were treated back then, how they weren't treated as well.

I think it's important that that we continue to celebrate our veterans for a multitude of reasons.

It's it's been the veteran and the and also the veteran's family who has suffered and sacrificed to make sure that we remain a free country and we have the freedoms and the ability to do the things that we that we are able to do.

And I think it's extremely important that we go up to them.

We make them feel welcome, because they pretty much gave everything for this country.

And the reason that we're all standing here today, you know, with the freedoms we have is because of them.

And now growing up.

Service was a part of high expectations as you came into manhood, you expected to serve your country, as did my father, my grandfather.

My father before him had several brothers, also.

They served this nation.

It's important that we serve this country.

That's how we got the freedoms that we got in people's.

A lot of times forget that in the state of Kentucky, only 8% of the member of the people of Kentucky have ever worn a uniform.

So it's a very, very small group of people that we depend upon to make sure that our freedoms are here for us.

And so they allow us to do what we do, like what we like, protest what we don't like.

It's under their backs that we're able to have our freedoms every day that we.