“Support the troops with more than lip service”
NEWS from SFTT Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 7, 2008
Contact: Maura Kallaway at 203--629-0288
Betty Cordellos at 203-656-0207; cell tel: 203-820-4691
So that it won’t rain on our little parade – the public tribute with 1st Selectman Tesei and others, previously scheduled to take place in front of the Greenwich Post Office, has been moved indoors to:
Richards of Greenwich (359 Greenwich Ave.) from 6:15 to 6:30 PM on Friday May 9
See revised program below. And as before, please plan to join us, and bring or send your camera crew, for the public ceremony and stay for the 6:30 B.E.S.T. benefit event at Richards. We welcome your attendance and will be happy to facilitate interviews and photo opportunities with attendees, special guests and honorees for your local and community news coverage as well as living/society stories and features. – Betty Cordellos
PS- Two more reasons to stick around for the B.E.S.T. event immediately following the brief ceremony: talk with Roger Charles about a SFTT-facilitated news story -about the unconscionable treatment a number of returning Iraqi vets are enduring - that will breaking nationally over the next couple weeks on a major network news program and a national newspaper; and John Grant, father of a soldier on active duty in Iraq - who is heading up SFTT’s newest campaign: Families for the Troops (formerly known as Fathers for the B.E.S.T.) which is touching families from Texas to Greenwich with loved ones serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MAY 9, 2008 PROCLAIMED COL. DAVID HACKWORTH DAY
BY THE TOWN OF GREENWICH AND THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
David Hackworth Day tribute Public Ceremony Scheduled on May 9, 2008
6:15 PM- 6:30 PM Richard’s, 359 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich, CT
-Greenwich’s Silver Shield Honor Guard - led by pipes and drums - will march from the Police Station, arriving at Richards at 6:15 PM to pay their respects.
-First Selectman Peter Tesei will read his Proclamation
-Hack’s friend – author, former judge and TV journalist Catherine Crier - will say a few words about the SFTT (Hack’s legacy foundation)
objective: protecting America’s frontline troops before they go into battle by making sure they have the best available critical combat gear to meet their assigned missions and make it home alive and in one piece and
She will present SFTT’s 2008 Support the Troops with More than Lip Service Award to Operation Helmet’s Mark Meaders.
-Hack’s grandson Cameron England Scott will lay a wreath (donated by Colony Florist)
-Final tribute by the Silver Shield, pipe and drum will close the 2008 Col. David Hackworth Day tribute.
6:30 PM – You are invited to stay for the B.E.S.T. (best available equipment in support of the troops) benefit cocktail reception and auction immediately following at Richards, co-hosted by SFTT’s Eilhys England Hackworth and Scott Mitchell of Richards.
See www.sftt.org for information on the organization and the B.E.S.T. benefit.
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ABOUT SFTT Foundation
SFTT’s unique educational and advocacy mission is to see that the Pentagon and our elected leaders in Washington get the right equipment, training and leadership for our US troops by giving a public voice to and providing a candid forum for America’s front-line forces. SFTT was founded by Col. David Hackworth and Eilhys England Hackworth to educate our country's citizens on the need to give a voice to our serving sons and daughters and to demand that they receive: Equipment superior to the best an enemy can employ against them; Training that fully prepares them to succeed in all assigned missions; Leadership dedicated to selfless service and the timeless values of duty, honor, and country. Through news breaking reporting from the foundation’s Defense Watch webzine and its INTEL CENTER, which is regularly monitored and sought out by major media, SFTT has been instrumental in shining the bright light of public scrutiny on injustices from anthrax vaccines to Abu Ghraib to substandard body armor. Defense Watch has been the source, credited and not, for recent front page articles and news segments in the New York Times and the Washington Post, 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News and Dateline, and other national broadcast news programs. ‘Hack’ was a Greenwich resident until the time of his death in May 2005 from bladder cancer from exposure to Agent Blue in Viet Nam. His widow, Eilhys, continues to guide the foundation from the couple’s Greenwich home. The 501(c)3 organization is supported by donations from concerned individuals. More information can be found on the foundation website: www.SFTT.org.
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