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MEMORIES:
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News Release
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Appreciation Letter
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News Release
Chattanooga Area
Veterans Council
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National
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A final, critique meeting was held by the 2004
Armed Forces Week Celebration and Parade Committee on June 10 at the Choo
Choo. Curtis Adams will be civilian chairmen of the
2005 committee and Patty Parks will serve as military chairperson.
CAVC Chairman Jim Shull presided over the
meeting. Col. Tom McConnell presented awards to the JROTC units who
marched in the parade.
Photos
of Awards
Parade theme which will be displayed on billboards
throughout Chattanooga with the cooperation of Clear Channel.
News
Release April 20, 2004
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Armed Forces Week highlights
Thursday, May 6, 7:30 AM, Boss's Breakfast sponsored by the
Department of Defense, Crystal Room at the Choo Choo
Thursday, May 6, 6:30 to 8:30 PM, VIP reception at the National
Guard Armory
Friday, May 7, 10:30 AM, Armed Forces Week Parade moving north on
Market Street
Friday, May 7, Noon, Banquet in the Silver Ballroom of the Read
House
Saturday, May 8, 9:30 AM, Coast Guard cutter round trip to Ross's
Landing, by reservations only
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Maj. Gen. Patrick H. Brady
US Army, Retired
will be keynote speaker for the Armed Forces Week Banquet
Friday, May 7, 2004, at noon in the Silver Ballroom of the Read House
Biography
of Maj. Gen. Brady
Medal of
Honor certificate for Maj. Gen. Brady
A street map prepared by the Chattanooga Police
Department for the May 7 Armed Forces Week Parade shows the route to be
followed. Staging on Market Street will be between 12th Street and
M.L. King Boulevard. It will move north on Market to 3rd Street,
turn west one block to Broad and turn north for disbursement.
Parade Committee meeting Friday, March 19, at the Navy-Marine Reserve
Center.
Col. Jim Darling explains the VIP reception as Edith Whitman
listens |
Parade officers are Secretary Dawn Patterson, Military Co-Chairman
Carl Levi and Civilian Co-Chairman Bill Knowles. |
Willard Sessons presents billboard ideas to promote the parade. |
Ralph Wilson, Grand Marshal, Don Loftis, William Blake and Jim
Darling |
Parade committee members |
Police Sgt. Jeff Clarke displays the parade route map. |
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February
20, 2004 Committee meeting minutes.
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Carl Levi, 2004 parade military
chairman, goes over plans with Bob Lahiere, who chairs a committee,
at the January 16 committee meeting. Bill Knowles is civilian
chairman |
February 20, 2004 Plans began to fall into place in a meeting of
the 2004 Armed Forces Celebration committee at the Navy-Marine Reserve
Center on Amnicola Highway. The parade is scheduled for 10:30 AM on
Friday, May 7.
Bill Knowles is civilian chairman and Carl Levi is civilian
chairman. Don Loftis will be grand marshal and Maj. Gen. Pat Brady
will be the keynote speaker for the luncheon at the Read House. He
was a chopper pilot in Vietnam.
This year the US Army is the office service in its year of rotation among
the branches of the military service.
Material on this site is available for use in
promotion of the observance. Permission is given for reproduction in
furthering the objectives of the parade.
Armed Forces Day Parade Committee
PO Box 24984
Chattanooga, TN 37422
Armed
Forces Week 2002 Observance
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