The Armed Forces Day Parade, after a Covid break, is back to honor all branches of our military
The Armed Forces Day Parade, after a Covid break, is back to honor all branches of our military
It's just something that is been going on decades here in the tennessee valley.
It is the annual or forces because of the cold 19 endemic force to put th parade back but thanks to the hard work of this guy we get to have commander ricky mckay wish mister mccain was commander became good to see was a good board and typically for having your your visitors kind of tuneful, number one, it's your organization that is putting on the big concert coming up this saturday the seventeenth featuring here come the mommies.
It is up over partnering with at&t.
One thing goes right over and here come the moment and what were trying to do is to bring normalcy back to our live.
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I read more that it can be done to be done safely, safely.
Lots very much so now out because of mickey, we are able to give awa tickets to here come mommies, and our first winter is charles rollins from port alabama, so girls congratulations.
Make sure you're here before five o'clock friday afternoon and pick up your ticket with you.
Thanks for looking this up with you were telling me during the break, somebody wants to buy tickets for veterans and help them out with that as well good lead-in to the arm forces right and if a company would like to sponsor the children simply to call us of the all four two three seven five six two two oh two 201 one or two two one two right and will be glad to locate veterans of company would like to sponsor like a 1200 of veterans will be glad to do that 2500 dollars and ricky's got access to a huge database featuring veteran right here in our hometown so you or your company would like to do that: are you gonna shift gears here mickey talking about the armed forces day parade.
Obviously armed forces day is in may you were holding the parade and not over all because of cold.
That's exactly right to you.
You know it's it's great that we will be able to continue here in chattanooga to have the longest running armed forces parade in the united states.
Your 71 minimum difference in the one 7 years and it will be a mobile right to bear moving right over.
No marching unit later, cody, which i know many of you been t the armed forces day parade in years past, and what mickey is saying is there will be in the high school bands we typically see that brother parade, but you are pretty much everything else we do to you and you know we recognize one branch of the service of the year we figured feature one branch right this year was to be named in your but because it is a unique here.
What were doing is were recognizing all branches of the military.
Plus our first responders are far are foolish or are you mad all of the peopl it really put their lives on the line every every day exactly in it's an opportunity because it's unique.
It's different and next year will be david here and wil begin work on 2021 as we sit here this is a and despite the lack of marching bands.
Everything else is going to be there first responder vehicles will see the army, navy, air force, marine coast guard all properly represented.
There wil be a will even have rotc units and they can your own low load are a trailer or a back of the cup truck will have the u.s. navy will have the sea cadets there as well so will have a presence of military it's just label not marching as the unit and this is coming next friday.
Next friday the 20 third parade will step off at it usual, together in a morning ml king and market street, and we encourage everyone to come out, watch the parade.
Watch it responsibly and practice or social distancing as well.
It i the armed forces day parade again 71 years hard to be and this is his mickey said the longest continually running parade in the united states and like you for your hard work in putting all this together never commit it.
I look forward to helping all with the parade thi year and in years to calm the honor of announcing it is an honor for while we appreciate you and god you're stuck with me for about the next 30 to 40 years armed forces day parade, and
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