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Community Event - American Heroes Air Show Event date: October 9th 2010 Release date: September 1st, 2010 DRAFT DRAFT American Heroes Air Show welcomes the American Veterans’ Traveling Tribute to St. Louis. Be sure to land your entire family at the admission-free American Heroes Air Show when the American Veterans Traveling Tribute [ AVTT ] rolls into Spirit of St. Louis Airport where the Cost of Freedom Tribute will be open to the public. The American Veterans Traveling Tribute (www.avtt.org) is a veteran-owned project that travels the USA to provide a forum for members of the community to come together to HONOR RESPECT - REMEMBER those whom we have asked to stand in harms way to protect and defend our great country and way of life. Don Allen is the CEO of the AVTT organization and a retired Special Forces Colonel with the U.S. Army. “The tribute honors those who are the true American Heroes,” Allen explains. “And we have the obligation to pay tribute to them by celebrating the freedoms they fought for and stand to insure.” The visually compelling centerpiece of the Cost of Freedom Tribute is the Traveling Vietnam Wall – an 80% replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. The "wall" stretches over 380 ft long from end to end and contains all 58,253 names. The "wall" is current through 2009 and is constantly being updated to accurately pay tribute to those who died during the Vietnam war.0 The AVTT exhibit also includes special tributes to honor fallen Law Enforcement and Firefighters, a pictorial memorial of the casualties at the Fort Hood 2009 shooting and a very special 9/11 tribute with the names of all 2,984 casualties organized by where they were located at the time of death.
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