(Photo by Stan Reimer)
While gathering and organizing content for a new website for the All Veterans Memorial Complex in Pratt Kansas, I will be adding photos and selected videos taken in 2003 during the Dedication ceremonies.
Some photos have already been posted (2003 Dedication Albums 1,2 and 3) and appropriate captions will added as time allows. More will be added within the next month. If any Pratt folks participted and want to give us some Captions (for the numbered photos) please email them to me (No. and Caption).
Some interesting video interviews were also found that will be added to the website (assuming the quality and sound is ok) after written approval is received from the individuals or their families. We intend on sending a request and approval form (from a mailing list that we are building) to accomplish this task in the next couple of months.
Interviews include featured speakers (like Hap Halloran), PAAF Trainees (like Robert Morgan) and local veterans too. See this example of a local veteran interview .
Thanks to the Pratt citizens (past and present) for their past help in providing their time and talents in this effort.
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I received this email from Hap Halloran:
"I just happened to be sitting in front of my computer when your message re Pratt Veterans came thru .
Brought back pleasant memories of my visits to Pratt in past years.
I seem to recall there was a Parade down Main Street that day and I rode in a convertible behind the car in which the Mayor of Pratt was riding.
Seems that my 86 year old memory bank tells me there was a large B-29 painted on the side of a building on Main Street, and I climbed a ladder to sign same on the front section of that painting of B 29.
I could be totally wrong - so please forgive me if that is so.
I also seem to recall that Lonnie McCollum, Police Chief of Pratt, drove me in his Police car to visit former B 29 training fields in Great Bend, Salina, Walker and Herington, and, of course, the Pratt training field and the good folks of Pratt.
Once again, my memories could be totally wrong. However, I will always have pleasant memories of those wonderful days when I visited Pratt folks and former B 29 training bases in Kansas.
Forgive me if I made errors in my recollections.
Best always to my friends in Pratt.
Sincerely
Hap Halloran"
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