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Armed Forces Week Celebration 2008
Parade Friday, May 2
CHATTANOOGA, TN May 1, 2008-The 58th continuous staging of the Armed Forces Day Parade will be held in Chattanooga on Friday, May 2. beginning at 10:30 AM. This is the only larger city in America to have the parade uninterrupted since President Harry Truman set aside the observance to honor the military on August 31,1949.
The Coast Guard will be honored this year as each branch of service takes its turn in rotation. The Chattanooga Area Veterans Council sponsors the event.
Don Loftis is parade chairman and Coast Guard BSM John M. Stamoucho is military project officer. Rear Adm. Joel Whitehead will be the keynote speaker for the luncheon at noon following the parade in the Convention and Trade Center. He is commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District.
Staging for the parade will be on Market Street south of M.L. King Boulevard. It will move north to Third Street and turn onto Broad Street for disbursement. The reviewing stand will be in front of the sheriff's office.
Luncheon in the Chattanooga Convention and Trade Center will follow the parade.
Although Armed Forces Day is on May 20, Chattanooga celebrates the parade early to allow school participation.
The VIP reception was set for 6:30 PM on May 1 at American Legion Post 95.
The Chattanooga Area Veterans Council, which coordinates activities for 47 organizations in the tri-state area, took over management of the parade in 1994 beginning in 1995. Veterans were recognized that year and service rotation began the next year.
Jim Coppinger will serve as parade committee chairman next year.
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Chattanooga Area Veterans Council Homepage
Parade Committee meeting May 22, 2008
at the Navy Reserve Center on Amnicola Highway.
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Parade Committee meeting November 6, 2007,
at the Navy Reserve Center on Amnicola Highway
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Armed Forces Week for 2008
Parade will be Friday, May 2, 2008, Banquet will follow in the Trade
Center. The VIP Reception will be Thursday, May 1, at American Legion Post
95.
The 2008 Armed Forces Week Committee met November 6 at the Naval
Reserve Center on Amnicola. Committee Chairman Don Loftis presided. BSM
John . Stamoucho is military project officer and Dawn Patton is secretary.
Committee assignments are:
ACTIVITIES--VIP reception Jim Shull, Luncheon Carl Levi, Breakfast Bill Hewitt,
Military VIPS Patty Parks and Civilian VIPS Don Loftis.
PUBLICITY--Billboards Willard Sessons, Static Display Gary Petty,
Advertising/media Pete Chaney & Earl Freudenberg & Cynthia Fagan, Photography
Pete Chaney, Speakers Mark Parks, Historian Carol Laing and Telephone Jan Bruce.
TRANSPORTATION--Traffic management/emergency routes Sgt. Jeff Clarke, Vehicle
signs Jim Shull and Parade cars Dan Lovin.
PARADE--Participation Kim Ratcliffe, Flyover Marty Malone, Color Guard Marty
Malone, Reviewing stand Bert Sawyer, Staging SSG Reid, Floats Mary Smith,
Permits Carl Levi, Walkie talkies/sanitation/insurance John Lopez, Flags Ernie
Seagle, School bands Rick Chambers & Joel Denton, Buses William Blake and JrROTC
Tom McConell and Mark Rehrer.
Next parade committee meeting will be January 8.
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