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Veterans are VIPs to sixth-graders

GMS students interview former servicemen for biography project

Lt. Col. Jay Gaspar, an Air Force veteran, shows Gainesville Middle School students the countries he lived in while in the service. - photo by SAVANNAH KING

0207veterans1 — Lt. Col. Jay Gaspar, an Air Force veteran, shows Gainesville Middle School students the countries he lived in while in the service. - photo by SAVANNAH KING

A student asked a veteran what he missed most about home during his military service. “Besides my family,” Lt. Col. Jay Gaspar replied. “I missed going wherever I wanted to whenever I wanted to.”