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High school graduates are getting ready to walk solemnly down an aisle while a band plays <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomp_and_Circumstance_Marches" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pomp and Circumstance</a>. Are you proud of your graduate? Send us graduation stories, tales of triumph and perseverance. Add them to our comments at the bottom of this story or email them to Laila.Kearney@Patch.com. If you have a cool photo of your graduate modeling a mortarboard, please upload it to Patch by clicking "Upload Photos and Videos" below and show the world. Alternatively, add your graduation pictures to the <a href="https://hercules.patch.com/pics" rel="nofollow">Hercules Neighborhood Gallery</a> or email Laila.Kearney@Patch.com Show your school pride! graduation Saturday, June 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the school's foodball field.  <a href="http://cphs.mdusd.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.jshs.jsusd.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Swett High School's</a> graduation is Friday, June 8 at 6:45 p.m. at the school's foodball field.

High school graduates are getting ready to walk solemnly down an aisle while a band plays <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomp_and_Circumstance_Marches" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pomp and Circumstance</a>.

Are you proud of your graduate? Send us graduation stories, tales of triumph and perseverance. Add them to our comments at the bottom of this story or email them to Laila.Kearney@Patch.com. If you have a cool photo of your graduate modeling a mortarboard, please upload it to Patch by clicking "Upload Photos and Videos" below and show the world. Alternatively, add your graduation pictures to the <a href="https://hercules.patch.com/pics" rel="nofollow">Hercules Neighborhood Gallery</a> or email Laila.Kearney@Patch.com

Show your school pride! graduation Saturday, June 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the school's foodball field.

<a href="http://cphs.mdusd.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.jshs.jsusd.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Swett High School's</a> graduation is Friday, June 8 at 6:45 p.m. at the school's foodball field.

Hercules High's graduation is Saturday, June 9; John Swett seniors graduate Friday, June 8. Share your graduate's success with a photo or shout-out on Hercules Patch.

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