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Official Beginning Of Parade
Chattooga County’s Armed Forces Day
Parade officially got underway Saturday
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Armed Forces Day Parade Grand Mar
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reviewing stand at the Courthouse Satur
day. Matson was released from a prison
in {taly during WW 11 where he was ser
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Ex-POWs
Honored
At Dinner
145th Medical Detachment in Marietta
swooped low over the parade route. Staff
photo by Kay Abbott.
T. Frederick. The grou% would become
known as ‘“The Devil's Brigade’ and as
Gen. Frederick’'s personal bodyguard,
Matson would be termed ‘‘The lg:vil's
Bodyguard.” Matson is the sole surviv
ing member of “The Dirty Dozen” of
movie fame. Photo by Earl McConnell.
Chattooga Countfi Ex-Prisoners of War
are shown with other dignitaries at a din
ner held at the Memorial Home Friday.
Pictured, left to right are: VFW Post 6688
Commander Rag Hall, ex-POW D.P.
Chapman, ex-POW Frank Kellett, ex-
PO\B Raymond Ellir;‘gton. ex-POW Leo
Lanier, Jr., Armed Forces Day Parade
Grand Marshal Duff Matson, ex-POW
Leon Espy, Colonel Jack Downey of Fort
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John Sparks lead the ex-POW float along
the Armed Forces Day parade route
Saturday. Price, from Eyast Ridge, Ten
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Double Duty
During the Armed Forces
Day weekend in Chattooga
Count{:i Tony Gilleland serv
ed as Master of Ceremonies
for a dinner at the Memorial
Home on Friday. He also
served as Master of
Ceremonies Saturday morn
ing at the memorial service at
the WW I Doughboy statue
in Trion. Photo by Earl
McConnell.
the Board of Directors of Chattooia
County Memorial Home; and Sewell Cash,
Mayor of the City of Summerville. Cash
presented a plaque to the fioup on behalf
of the Mayor and Council. The inscription
read, ‘“‘Presented to all ex-POWs and
veterans of Chattooga County to honor
and recoinize your sacrifice and contribu
tion to the cause of freedom.” Photo by
Earl McConnell.
POWs Pass In Review
District President In Parade
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Mary Jane Hane“x of Summerville was honored at the
Memorial Home Friday night duri‘rxxlg a dinner for Chat
tooga County’s Ex-Prisoners of War and other Gold
Star Mothers. Her son, Benny Ray Dupree, was killed
in action in Vietnam on Oct. 9, 1969. ghe is pictured
with Duff Matson at the dinner. Photo By Earl
McConnell.
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nessee is the only man to ever escape from
north Vietnam. Sparks, from Chat
tanooga, was a POW in north Vietnam for
over five years. Photo by Earl McConnell.
ing the Armed Forces Day Parade Satur
day. Photo by Earl McConnell.
Gold Star Mother
The Trion High School Ma.rchin}f Band
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Brovided the music for the Armed Forces
ay Parade Saturday. In the mood of the
The Summerville News, May 22, 1986 . . .
MEMORIES
Armed Forces Day
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World War I Memorial
Bob Harper, a WW ll'Veteran (left) and “Boots” Floyd,
a Korean War Veteran, stand beside the W W I
Doughboy Statue in Trion after the Memorial Service
Saturday to kick-off Chattooga Count{:ls Armed Forces
D%y Activities. Floyd's father, Sonny ogd, was aWW
I Veteran and his name is engraved on the statue. The
statue was erected in 1934. Photo by Earl McConnell.
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Parachute Jump Creates Excitement
Residents of all ages lined Memorial Drive and encircl
ed the field fronting the Chattooga County Memorial
Home Saturda‘y during a spectacular parachute jumg
staged by the Ist Tennessee Parachute iment an
area clubs. Onlookers squinted into the mid sun and
cheered as Robert A. sfi%un.n er of the Ist Tennessee un
furled an American flag on his way down. Above, seven
year-old Julie Webb watches the flag-bearer make his
jump. Staff photo by Kay Abbott.
day, erade viewers near the reviewing
stand could be heard singing llon” as the
band played ‘‘God Bless America. Photo
courtesy of The Trion Facts,
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