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Over 300 attend 10th annual Wal-Mart Veterans breakfast, program

Updated with photos now being added

The Columbia Wal-mart Supercenter held its 10th Annual Veteran's Day Breakfast and Program on Tuesday, November 11, 2008, at the new store building on Burkesville Road, with the largest crowd ever, well over 300, in attendance.

All veterans and their families were invited to attend. The breakfast began at 8:00amCT and the program will follow at 9:00amCT.

The program was as follows:



Collumbia Wal-mart Supercenter's
10th Annual Veterans Program
November 11, 2008

  • Presentation of colors by Adair County VFW Post 6097, Columbia, KY

  • Opening prayer by Rev. Joseph Payne

  • Star Spangled Banner by ACHS Marching Band Ensemble

  • Pledge of Allegiance, led by Anna Tanner, Wal-Mart Assistant Manager

  • Retire colors by Adair County VFW Post 6097, Columbia, KY

  • Welcome, by Lisa Fisher Clark, Wain

  • Veteran speaker: Master Sgt. Bernard Dunn

  • America the Beautiful with soloist Ricardo Hughes

  • Flag Folding Ceremony, led by Melissa Patterson, Asst. Mgr

  • Remembrance, Audrey Jones, Asst. Mgr

  • God Bless America, Ricardo Hughes

  • Veterans Introductions, Danny Bragg, Manager

  • Closing, Danny Bragg, Manager

  • Veterans Sing God Bless America
God Bless America

God bless America
Land that I love
Stand beside her
And guide here
Through the night
With the light from above

From the mountains
To the prairies
To the ocean
White with foam

God Bless America
My Home, Sweet Home
>

-Irving Berlin


A thank you from Wal-Mart:

Your Wal-Mart Supercenter is once again proud to sponsor this Veteran's Day Breakfast and Program. On this Veteran's Day, we honor our veterans and we honor their families. We offer the thanks of a grateful People. May God bless our veterans, and may God continue to bless the United States of America.

Wal-Mart would like to thank the following for their generous contributions to make this day a success:McDonald's for meat, biscuits; Betty's OK Country Cooking, for meat, biscuits; Dairy Queen, for gravy; Wal-mart Subway, for tomatoes. Dean's Milk for Milk and OJ.

Thanks to VFW Post 6097 for the use of their tables and chairs.

Thank to the local VFW Colorguard and the ladies of DAV Auxiliary #72 for their continued help in making this day special for all of our veterans>

Thanks to Jimmy Turner and the Green River Car Cruisers for use of their sound system.

Thanks to Wain, Adair Progress, ColumbiaMagazine.com, and Community Voice for promoting and covering our breakfast. -ROBIN SMITH, for Wal-Mart Supercenter, Holladay Place, Columbia, KY.


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10th Annual Wal-mart Veterans Program: Bernard Dunn



2008-11-12 - Wal-mart Supercenter, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
MASTER SGT. BERNARD DUNN was the principal veterans speaker at the 10th Annual Veterans Day program, November 10, 2008, at Wal-Mart Supercenter. "I speak as an old soldier who rays for peace each day," Master SGT Dunn told the gathering. The event was the first in the new 146,000 s.f Supercenter. Event manager and Wal-mart Associate Robin Smith said that it was the largest group ever to attend the breakfast and program.

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10th Annual Wal-Mart Veterans program: Grider, Strange



2008-11-12 - Wal-mart Supercenter, Holladay Place, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
ORVIS GRIDER, and BOBBY STRANGE, Vietnam era veterans were among the veterans honored at the 10th Annual Wal-mart Supercenter Breakfast and Veterans program Tuesday, November 12, 2008. Also visible, Jimmy Bennett, Vietnam era, and Nathan Hale.

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10th Annual Wal-mart Veterans Program: Ricardo Hughes



2008-11-12 - Wal-mart Supercenter, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
RICARDO HUGHES sand "America, the Beautiful," and "God Bless the USA," to the delight of over 300 present at the 10th Annual Columbia Wal-Mart Veterans Program. At left is Wal-Mart Supercenter Manager Danny Bragg; at right is Anna Tanner, Assistant Manager, who led the Pledge of Allegiance. The breakfast and program was held Tuesday, November 11, 2008.

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10th Annual Wal-mart veterans breakfast



2008-11-12 - Wal-mart Supercenter, Columbia, KY - Photo By Ed Waggener.
MARGARET SPARKS and FRANCES BRANHAM served breakfast to the huge crowd which attended the Wal-Mart Supercenter veterans breakfast and program.

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Wal-mart 10th Veterans program: Pledging allegiance



2008-11-12 - Wal-mart Supercenter, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener.
BILL and MARTHA SKAGGS, foreground, during Pledge of Allegiance led by Assistant Wal-mart Supercenter Manager Anna Tanner. To their left is Helen York, there with husband Vernon York. And, in the background can be seen Rev. Lewis Haynes of Plum Point Baptist Church.

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