Local DAR To Support Welcome Home

  • Saturday, January 21, 2017

The Daughters of the American Revolutions’ Chattanooga Regents’ Council met on Thursday. Regents Joye Duke, Chickamauga Chapter; Jessica Dumitru, Chief John Ross Chapter; Susan Lindsey, Judge David Campbell Chapter; Natalie Blackwell, Nancy Ward Chapter; Barbara Fickley, Moccasin Bend Chapter, and Teresa Rimer, Chattanooga Regents’ Council Chairman discussed upcoming events.

These events include naturalization ceremonies at Joel W. Solomon Federal Building where representatives of chapters present new citizens with copies of the American Creed and a flag lapel pin. Chapters also provide and serve refreshments after the ceremonies.  

Attending the meeting was Bub Alley, a local businessman, author, Vietnam veteran and the Hamilton County Vietnam War coordinator. Mr. Alley presented the tentative schedule for “Welcome Home” and requested support by the local area DAR chapters to work with Vietnam Veterans Association Chapter 203 to support a three-day event on March 27, 28 and 29. With over 800 Vietnam veterans living in the local Chattanooga area, the VVA hopes to “Welcome Home” those who served our country in uniform during the Vietnam era.

“Welcome Home” is one of many proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Vietnam War. Current plans for Monday, March 27, focus on providing these veterans and their families with a meal, a patriotic concert, and the pinning of veterans with the commemoration pin.

Tuesday’s events will be the showing of the movie “We Were Soldiers Once and Young” at the Tivoli Theater. The movie is based on the book by Lt. General Harold (Hal) G. Moore and war journalist Joseph Galloway and follows the First and Second Battalions of the 7th Calvary Regiment in the Battle of la Drang Valley. This battle was the first major confrontation between U.S. troops and North Vietnamese troops. This event is open to the public.

Wednesday’s activities will be at the Chattanooga National Cemetery with a candle lighting ceremony honoring those who gave their all from the Chattanooga area. This solemn event is also open to the public.  

Activities later in the spring include the Brainerd Mission Cemetery flag raising ceremony on the second Wednesday of June and then, in July, providing meals to the veterans attending the UTC Veterans’ Entrepreneurial Program. The flag raising ceremony begins in mid-afternoon, includes a ceremony of lowering the flag that has flown over the cemetery for the past year and the raising of a new flag. This ceremony honors those who once inhabited the local area and the missionaries who brought Christianity to the indigenous Indians. Charles Rhodamer, director of the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, will be the guest speaker.

The UTC/VEP program works with students starting their own business and includes pre-qualification for entry into the program, home study and then a residency at UTC in an intense, focused. learning environment. During the seven-day long course of study at UTC, students can exchange business building ideas and gain knowledge from business experts from the community and the university. Local DAR chapters join together to serve the students and faculty lunch during their course of study.

To learn more about the DAR and our support for veteran, visit the state or national websites: www.tndar.org or www.nsdar.org.


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