Second annual Let Freedom Ring event to have AEDC ties

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  • By Shawn Jacobs
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Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn. --  The second annual Let Freedom Ring Military Community Appreciation Day, scheduled for Oct. 15, will include elements from Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC).

This year's event will be held at the Monterey Station in Cowan and is scheduled to run from 1 to 4 p.m.

Tennessee Army National Guard Lt. Col. Warner Holt, who is safety manager for Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), AEDC's operating contractor, will be one of the speakers at the event. The AEDC Honor Guard will be presenting the colors as well as doing the prisoner of war/missing in action (POW/MIA) table ceremony.

The Let Freedom Ring event is meant to recognize and show appreciation to the entire military community, including active duty personnel as well as National Guard,
Reserve forces, retired military and their families.

Guest speakers will express the entire community's appreciation to those unique heroes who have stepped forward to serve their country. In addition, local entertainers will honor the military community by performing. Military equipment will be on display, along with helicopter flyovers and live cannon fire.

The first such event last year drew more than 400 spectators, and organizers are expecting an even larger crowd this year.

Let Freedom Ring is the brainchild of Gayle Haywood, who developed the idea as a way of honoring her father's 27 years of service in the United States Coast Guard. She
emphasized, however, that the event is to recognize all military, past and present, from Franklin and surrounding counties and from throughout Tennessee.

Additional information may be obtained from Gayle Haywood at (931) 841-0715 or retired U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Larry Williams at (931) 924-3000 (home) or (931) 224-3226
(cell).