Danville vets treated to pancake breakfast as part of Veteran's Day celebrations

He is in Danville this morning, where they do a wonderful observance out there, and it will start in just a little while. Jesse, good morning. Good morning. Dave, good morning again to you, and we're inside the Veterans Memorial where it has started, not in a little while. Right now, you see behind me the line where they have the pancake breakfast for veterans who are now coming in and grabbing some of the, some of the, let's take a look at what they have. Come on. If we could, oh, thank you very much. They're opening, they have pancakes, we have sausage, fruit, juice. Finest linguiça in the Santa Mora Valley. Finest linguiça? In the Santa Mora Valley. All right, this is Rene Morgan. Rene is on the town council. Rene, tell me, I know this is a labor of love. Why do you do it? First of all, I'm a military brat. My father was in the military for 30 years, retired command sergeant major, and my son-in-law, 20 years, also Army. This is all about giving back to our vets. I'm going to move out of the way. I'm just going to move out of the way. Go ahead, sir. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hold you up. Don't stand in between a soldier and his breakfast. Amen to that. That's why I moved. That's why I moved. Renee, you were saying you had a message for Dave Clark, right? I do. Dave, Clark, I miss you. I miss you and your wife. And guess what? You should be down here having breakfast with us. I hear you, Renee. You pass that on to Dave directly. He said, I hear you, Renee. Thank you very much. By the way, we always told him he married way out of his league. And apparently you married way out of your league. That's so nice. So those are two things. And now let's talk to some... Oh, right behind you. Jayden, okay, I just want to talk to a couple of veterans here. As you can see, these are people who have been in line earlier, and they've got their food. Sir, I know I'm sorry to bother you while you're mid-forkful. But, but, um... Can we just ask you real quick, how does this strike you, having this? To be honest, I've been ambivalent for a number of years. I spent 30 years in, and I was always like, do I trade my status for a free pancake? So this is my very first time, and I'm very impressed. I'm glad these people do it. I think it's very supportive. And it takes a lot of effort, and so I'm very glad to see it, and I will probably leave here and go to somewhere else now that I've broken the ice. Very much so. That's wonderful to hear. So what's your name, sir? Steve. My last name's Morgan. I'm Steve Morgan. And where did you serve and what branch? I was in the Army for 30 years. Thank you. Got out a long time ago, but I was in the Army for 30 years. Thank you for your service and welcome home. Thank you for your support. Thank you. Thank you. And I apologize for interrupting your breakfast. No, let's get a good picture of this. Oh. Yeah, they have donuts also. So this pancake breakfast goes from 7.30 until 10 this morning, and as you can see, we've got to get out of the way because the crowd is starting to come in. But we just wanted to give you a little taste of what it's like here for these veterans. This lasts until 10 and at 11 o'clock they're going to have another ceremony. Things go all day up until 4.40 when they have a ceremonial beacon lighting outside on the flagpole. We'll talk more about that coming up in the next hour. Now we're live in Danville. We'll head back to you in a moment. All right, Jesse, Gary, it's always a great event. And Dan, Bill, and Renee Morgan, it's good to see you too.