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On June 1, 2010, the 173d Airborne Brigade National Memorial will be dedicated at the National Infantry Museum’s Parade Ground. This singular event will bring Sky Soldiers and their families from around this country and Down Under to honor, remember, reflect, and renew the bonds of fellowship and community born of service in the ranks of the Herd.
Veterans, active duty Sky Soldiers, and families will join with Gold Star families to honor the Brigade, its heritage and contributions to the nation, and the supreme sacrifices of those who fell in combat. The dedication ceremony in Columbus/Fort Benning precedes by one day the annual Reunion, held this year in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
To help with the logistics for this event, a Dedication Transportation Group has been formed. It is independent of the Memorial Foundation and the Brigade Association. Terry Modglin, a Herd Officer 1970-71 organized this effort as a service to facilitate major transportation needs of attendees, including
” travel from Atlanta (the nearest major airport with low-cost fares) to Columbus (and return);
from Columbus to North Myrtle Beach for those wishing to attend the 2010 Reunion; and
from select hotels to the dedication itself and returning to those hotels. The Dedication Transportation Group is offering to help facilitate the coordination of hotels so that Sky Soldiers and others can stay with their unit groups, if they so desire.
Here is how to get more information:
This micro-website generously provided by the Columbus Visitors and Convention Bureau helps you reserve lodging at a hotel where Sky Soldiers from organized groups from constituent units of the Brigade will be staying. Check the list at www.skysoldier.org, then see the link to hotels on this page.
The 173d Association website, www.skysoldier.org, links you to arrangements for bus transportation round trip between the Atlanta airport and Columbus, to and from the Memorial Dedication, and from Columbus to the Herd Reunion in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, as well as listing units’ selected hotels.
The Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau website (www.visitcolumbusga.com ) highlights the many sights in and around Columbus and at Ft Benning, including the new and exciting National Infantry Museum just across the Parade Ground from the 173d Memorial, the delightful new downtown Columbus, and a range of historic sites in the area, as well as on post.
