MASSED

BANDS

OPENED

THE SHOW!

THEN CAME THE CELTIC MUSIC PART...

MARY TRAVELED ALL THE WAY FROM

LOS ANGELES WITH A BROKEN FOOT

TO PERFORM!

ALL PROCEEDS WERE DONATED TO VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA CHAPTER 1048

PIPES, DRUMS & PATRIOTS

A CELTIC MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF AMERICA'S HEROES

FOLLOWED BY THE AMERICAN PATRIOTIC MUSIC PART.....

AND FINALLY THE AFTER PARTY!

DRUM MAJORS KEN & RICK WITH JOANN & SOUVENIR PROGRAM DESIGNER KEN ENGLISH

DRUM MAJOR KEN MISCH LED THE PERFORMERS IN THE GRAND FINALE

THEN THE MASSED BANDS MARCHED

OUT OF THE AUDITORIUM.

VVA CHAPTER 1048 PRESIDENT ROD PHILLIPS, VICE PRESIDENT BOB ADKINS & HIS WIFE CATHY & JOANN

INVOCATION LED BY US ARMY CHAPLAIN HARLAND MERRIAM 

WE HONORED OUR FAITH, FLAG AND FREEDOM.

INCLUDING A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN NARRATED

BY  COL. DAVID SMITH USMC (Ret.) and FEATURING BUGLER TERRY SCHAACK

NATIONAL ANTHEM 

THEN AN IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE OUTSIDE!

WORLD CHAMPION DRUM MAJOR JASON PAGUIO ENTERTAINED US WITH AN AMAZING FREESTYLE EXHIBITION (HE WAS AWARDED HIS 6TH WORLD CHAMPION TITLE IN COMPETITION IN SCOTLAND A WEEK LATER! )

DRUM MAJORS, JOANN & VVA

CHAPTER 1048 OFFICIAL

PHOTOGRAPHER JOSE ROSA

BUT THE SHOW WAS NOT YET OVER!

THERE WERE PICS TO BE TAKEN.....

OUR M.C. WAS HON. JASON P. DAVIS, US ARMY

WE STOOD FOR OUR ANTHEM AND BOWED OUR HEADS IN PRAYER.