Senior address for my high school band banquet, good speech

Well here it is. Band banquet time again. A time to recognize our accomplishments and kick-off a new year. But there are 15 of us in this room tonight, who won't be here next year - fifteen members of this band whose time with the Sound of Pride has come to an end. Tonight we can look back on the last four years, with sentiment and admiration. Throughout the last four years we've sweated together and …

…field, we've learned what it means to work for something, and with locked arms at festivals, we've learned how it feels to finally get it. We've learned that the times we cried would one day make us laugh, and tonight, as it all comes to an end, as we look back over our four years, and as we say good-bye, we learn that the times that made us laugh, would one day make us cry.