Woodbridge Middle School honored Officer Derrick Sims for Veterans Day in November as students and teachers gathered outside by the American flag to sing and honor his service.
Officer Sims is always referred to as Mr. Derrick around the school because of his amiable demeanor. Mr. Derrick explained what it was like to train to be a marine.
He said, “Training was very tough, Yes I did think about quitting many times. It was physically tough mentally tough and emotionally tough, especially when isolated from your family and friends. And to add to that the weather was brutal, it was in the middle of the summer in the South, and there were a lot of things to overcome mentally, with fatigue, stress, lack of food, and lack of water, so they trained me to be very resilient, and looking back I’m glad I went through it, it has made me be a tougher person.”…