Be sure to click on the various audio links to hear the speakers, band, and choir
You should notice much better sound quality with my recordings as compared to picking up the sound from the over-head speakers like on other sites you may have been visiting...

IMPRESSIVE - our school infrastructure is so well cared for and kept up to date.

November 10, 2022 - an image the community can be very proud of!

After the program, I visited with Scott Eickman for a few moments. I told him that for decades and decades I've always said how amazing it is with the number of talented people this little town produces...this isn't just my biases but based on the thousands of events, groups, and individuals I've recorded/documented/photographed for 50+ years in/around Manning.
I told him that I'm not taking anything away from his military accomplishments, but how great it is that he is involved with so many civilian aspects of our community.
If you click on the link below, you'll see just a few examples of Scott's talents and dedication to his community and country.

The next day I was visiting with a couple of Manning citizens...telling them about Scott's presentation and how amazing it is the number of talented people are in a small town...to which they pondered if it was more unique to Manning and not as much in other small towns - My reply was that yes, there are just as many talented people in other small towns, BUT they don't have the all of the avenues to present their talent like here in Manning, where there is always something going on, an event, fundraiser, public activities and the amount of volunteers that make this all possible for talented folks such as Scott to really shine.

So please take the time to click on the Veterans Day feature and think out of the box as to what is really going on in small-town, rural Manning, Iowa, as you look at the various pictures and listen to the speakers, choir, and band.
I also have added some history and pictures about a couple of the people who participated in that program.
One thing you shouldn't be surprised with - IF you have been following my web pages and historical articles over the decades, are the number of PATRIOTIC area citizens we have, both now and in the past.

We need to highlight and showcase more people like Scott, so the youth of today have someone to look up to and want to emulate - where it once was that kids had heroes like Superman (Truth, Justice & the American Way) and wanted to be an astronaut, and musical artists even had songs titled "Jesus is Just Alright" - but today kids are being subjected to the worst of humanity.

30 Manning men paid the ULTIMATE price with their lives!
Manning's Veterans of our past: 1 War of 1812, 102 Civil War Veterans, 1 Indian War, 5 Spanish American War, 380+ WWI, well over 700 WWII, and several hundred since...