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Atlanta Classical Academy's annual Veterans Day ceremony on November 11th celebrated courage in speech through powerful veteran encounters. Senior Madeline Jane Welcher recounted how students helped an Air Force veteran find his fallen friend's name at the Vietnam War Memorial, leading to meaningful storytelling. Atlanta Classical grandfather Walter DuPre shared his uncle John Brady Kane's WWII story, including a poignant letter from a nurse describing Kane's selfless final moments. The ceremony, which current juniors have attended since age five, demonstrates how courageous conversations, ceremonies, and letters preserve veterans' legacies and inspire future generations to uphold sacred ideals of service and virtue.

When Heidi and Matthew Mooney first arrived at ACA in 2014, they came ready to work—assembling furniture, painting walls, and helping build the school from the ground up. Now, more than a decade later, the Mooneys are once again getting behind ACA's mission, this time it's to lead the Cavaliers Build campaign, a $12 million fundraising effort to transform the campus for future generations.

Despite their own daughters having limited time to enjoy the new facilities, the Mooneys, along with fellow founding family Langley and Diane Respess, recognize this project is about something bigger than themselves. It's about creating a lasting legacy for the community that has given their families so much.