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For Immediate Release:
For Further Information Contact: Terri Staten
Executive Director
Executive Leadership Foundation
770-712-4474
Statewide Project Honoring Georgia's WWII Veterans
To Hold Appreciation Ceremonies in Savannah Aug 30
The statewide project that is honoring WWII veterans will hold a major
media event in Savannah on August 30.
Five Savannah-area veterans will be recognized and presented official engraved appreciation awards signed by Georgia's two US Senators, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss.
The Savannah area veterans are being honored from a grateful nation symbolically representing all WWII veterans.
The ceremonies will include an 8 minute DVD documentary based on on-camera
interviews with the five veterans: Karl A. Holmen, Vernon N. Williamson, Charles Francis Hearn, Morris H. Lamhut, and Frank A. Kelly. "Honoring The Greatest Generation" project is acquiring as
many on-camera interviews with WWII veterans as possible. The project is archiving these video interviews for future use by researchers, historians, educators, and documentary producers.
In addition, the Honoring The Greatest Generation project is also producing a series of DVD documentaries using portions of many of these interviews. A major objective of the project
is the generation of educational efforts designed to re-instill a high regard for such values as duty, honor, and country among members of younger generations.
The project is continuing its
efforts to acquire and archive as many on camera interviews with WWII veterans as possible. In addition to archiving the footage itself, the project is sharing the interviews with The Veterans
Project of the Library of Congress in Washington.
The project is sponsored by "The Executive Leadership Foundation" a non profit organization. Col Nimrod "Mac"
McNair – himself a veteran of WWII – heads the organization. Bishop & Associates of Panama City, FL, are producing the video materials for the project.
"It is
important to our future that we do all we can today, to provide inspirational material and first hand testimony by those who served in WWII. Their efforts and those of all who fought with and
supported them, defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and secured liberty and freedom for the world, they deserve special recognition while they are still among us," says McNair.
Senators Chambliss and Isakson head an impressive list of Georgia celebrities in supporting the patriotic project.
Savannah will host the first of several media events being
promoted by the project – events will be held in several cities all across the state over the next few months. Veterans from the immediate area of each of the events will receive special
recognition with the framed, engraved awards, and a copy of a DVD produced from their on camera interviews.
Similar personalized and framed appreciation awards are being made available to
other veterans and their families on the project website at www.honoringww2vets.com. Or
www.executiveleadershipfoundation.com
The Savannah event is scheduled:
When: August 30, 2006 at 10:00 am
Where: American Legion Post 135
1108 Bull Street in Savannah, GA 31401
If you need directions feel free to contact Adjutant Ervin Smith
in Savannah (912)233-9277.
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Highly decorated retired USAF Col. Nimrod "Mac" McNair was
Grand Marshall of Dacula’s Memorial Day parade in May. Riding alongside is the colonel’s granddaughter, Sheri. Col. McNair, 83, is promoting an effort to honor as many World War II veterans
and record their personal war stories as he can before they pass away. World War II veterans are dying at the rate of 1,200 per day, Col. McNair said. (JULY 2006)
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PARK SPRINGS SPONSORS EVENT
Park Springs is among co-sponsors of a community-wide event to educate the public about Alzheimer's Disease. The Executive
Leadership Foundation (led by Park Springs future resident Mac McNair joined with the Georgia Alzheimer Association and other sponsors to host Jacqueline Marcell, author of, Elder Rage, or Take
My Father... Please! How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents.
She spoke February 2 and 3, 2004, at the Briarcliff Methodist Church at Briarcliff and Shallowford Roads
in Decatur.
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