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American Veterans Traveling Tribute & Traveling Wall Visited Thomaston
THOMASTON - Veterans and active members of America’s armed services travel great distances and make great sacrifices to preserve and protect freedom and liberty, how far will you travel to honor their contribution?
Organizer Dan Daniel also advised of an upcoming event in Thomaston for Vietnam Veterans. "We are also having a Welcome Home celebration on April 18th that will include a parade at 4:00pm and ceremony starting around 5:30. Our hope was to have the wall and Welcome Event at the same time, but the AVTT Wall was only available for Easter weekend so we secured it when we could!"
The location for this event will be at Matthews Field on Hwy. 74 East in Thomaston. For more information about the parade and welcome home celebration, contact Dan Daniel at 706-427-3344 or go to the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/WelcomeHomeVV.
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The American Veterans Traveling Tribute visited Thomaston from Easter Weekend, April 3-5 at Matthews Field with the Traveling Wall. Matthews Field is located on Hwy. 74 East in Thomaston.
The mission of the project is to travel the nation to honor, respect, and remember men and women who served, and to pay specific tribute to those who gave all in that service. Since the tribute is mobile it allows people to honor and respect veterans and active military personnel without having to travel great distances to do so.
The AVTT presents the Traveling Wall, an 80 percent scale version of the Viet Nam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. Across its 360-foot length the wall contains every single name etched on the original. At its apex the memorial is an impressive eight-feet tall.
The Traveling Wall was completed in early 1998 and began traveling that year. AVTT’s Traveling Wall is the largest Wall replica traveling the USA, and is not to be confused with several other replica Walls; The Moving Wall, The Dignity Wall, the Wall That Heals. These replica Walls do a fine job, and we are all on a mutual mission.
Remembering, educating, and respect are the main focuses of AVTT. Honoring our nation’s heroes one community at a time.
About the AVTT:
The American Veterans Traveling Tribute is a veteran-owned project committed to travel the USA to honor, respect, and remember those who served, and pay specific tribute to those who gave all.
AVTT is not government sponsored or affiliated, but funded through sponsorship fees, donations, and sale of merchandise at events. AVTT is self funded via sponsorship fees, merchandise sales, and donations. AVTT is contracted by The Texas Freedom Tribute (TFT,) an IRS designated 501 C3, to provide The Wall, crew, and expertise. Donations or support to AVTT’s mission via TFT are qualified charitable tax deductions.
For more information or to schedule an AVTT event, visit www.avtt.org or email Leah@avtt.org